From: Mark C. <mrc...@pa...> - 2012-01-07 17:17:40
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On Sat, 7 Jan 2012, Jackie M. Young wrote: > --LOL! Great answer, thanks! ;) Just being honest... ;) > Had a feeling GMail was the cause, but wasn't sure if there was a > workaround or not......?? If Google doesn't fix it, the workaround is the equivalent of disabling the smoke alarm in your house because your furnace sets it off. The furnace company (Google) tells you "just ignore it, it's not a problem". > --My ISP _at one time_ (this is key) was the geekiest one in my state > (Hawai'i). Sadly, due to market pressures and loss of staff, etc., > they've had to cave into the "pop culch" and go to the "Cloud" (bleh). ;=( I am the person who coined the quote: Those who live by the cloud, die by the cloud. Everything that I foresaw some years ago is coming to pass. The people who object the most to this disaster tend to be older individuals (e.g., Boomers) who are rapidly passing from the picture. It's going to get much worse before it gets better. It is cyclic, and we're still on the downward part of the curve. The personal computer revolution of the late 1970s and 1980s has been completely overturned. Nobody noticed, because they have their PCs and Macs and handheld devices...all totally enslaved to the cloud. Privacy is a quaint memory of the past. And, in case you you haven't noticed, government LOVES the current situation. They have better information on you today that the late unlamented totalitarian regimes of the past. > I'd rather not mix business and pleasure, so am staying with the only > local ISP that supports shell access. Understood. The only thing that I use my ISP for is to carry bits on a static IP range. I run my own servers. > --Totally agreed. Except I'm also a long-time Mac user as well, so maybe > excepting Apple. ;) LOL I suppose that you noticed that MacOS is fading compared to iOS... And more to the point, MacOS had its control issues too. I spend a long time several years ago in a futile effort to get MacOS to answer the modem for a data call (not FAX) before I gave up. Apple "improved" the standard init/getty interface so that you couldn't get from here to there. > --Do you know whom I should complain to at Google?? If I knew, I would have done so. When I tried, either they ignored me, or they acted hurt that I say such things (yet never dealt with it), or they say that it's not a priority, or they say that it's too difficult to fix and unimportant. They're waiting for people like me to die and stop criticizing them. They'll get their wish soon. It's going to take a new generation who decide "this all sucks" and refuse to go along with it; just as my generation did in the 1970s. Right now, everybody is too busy playing Farmville or whatever or their iToys. -- Mark -- http://panda.com/mrc Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote. |