http://www.weif.net/rants/ The rants and ravings of an anoyed American. en-us Sun, 07 Jan 2007 17:49:00 MDT Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:09:52 MDT The Microsoft Genuine Advantage tool is just another piece of spyware or malware, this time distributed by Microsoft to spy on all Microsoft users. http://www.weif.net/rants/genuine-advantage-080413.php Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:15:00 MDT http://www.weif.net/rants/genuine-advantage-080413.php Yahoo!'s support desk auto-reply does not match with Yahoo!'s actual support practices. Rewriting their auto-response so it sets the correct expectation with those users unfortunate enough to have to deal with Yahoo! would probably be a step in the right direction. http://www.weif.net/rants/yahoo-bad-service-080224.php Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:05:00 MDT http://www.weif.net/rants/yahoo-bad-service-080224.php Not only is the proposed do-not-track list a bad idea for privacy online, but there is a much better solution already ready in the web browsers, the browser designers just need to change their thinking about cookies and privacy. http://www.weif.net/rants/cookie-tracking-071104.php Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:18:00 MDT http://www.weif.net/rants/cookie-tracking-071104.php You would think that all the evidence of the benefits of maintaining an opt-in policy for your email marketing, and the drawbacks of maintaining an opt-out policy for email marketing, as well as the ongoing research that continues to support these findings, coupled with laws that require an opt-in policy and practice would have put the nail in the coffin of the opt-in vs. opt-out debate years ago. Unfortunately, some marketers want to be known as spammers and want to bring it up again. http://www.weif.net/rants/opt-in-vs-opt-out-070919.php Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:02:00 MDT http://www.weif.net/rants/opt-in-vs-opt-out-070919.php Blocking ads on web pages is not evil, nor is it theft, nor will blocking ads prevent people from making money on web sites. http://www.weif.net/rants/ad-block-stupidity-070817.php Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:59:00 MDT http://www.weif.net/rants/ad-block-stupidity-070817.php This email is confidential and meant only for the addressed recipient - not all the people it was broadcast to. Yeah, right. http://www.weif.net/rants/email-confidential-070602.php Sat, 02 Jun 2007 14:25:00 MDT http://www.weif.net/rants/email-confidential-070602.php Internet Explorer 7 is no better as a web browser than Internet Explorer 6, in fact, it may be worse. Not only does Microsoft know this, they publicly acknowledge it. http://www.weif.net/rants/ie-sucks-070515.php Tue, 15 May 2007 16:35:00 MDT http://www.weif.net/rants/ie-sucks-070515.php What ever happened to being polite in business meetings? When did it become OK to blow off the person holding the meeting or to blow off the other people in the meeting? http://www.weif.net/rants/email-manners070507.php Mon, 07 May 2007 20:29:00 MDT http://www.weif.net/rants/email-manners070507.php Some tips for reporting spam to the correct ISPs to try to get the spam problems confronted at the source. http://www.weif.net/rants/report-spam-070110.php Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:53:00 MDT http://www.weif.net/rants/report-spam-070110.php Why the abuse email address is probably the most important part of setting up your email server, and why it is so important to not block or filter any email coming to the abuse address. http://www.weif.net/rants/abuse-address-070107.php Sun, 07 Jan 2007 13:52:00 MDT http://www.weif.net/rants/abuse-address-070107.php Singnet.com.sg - another spam promoter with a bad auto-response to any complaints they get about the spam coming from their spamming network. http://www.weif.net/rants/singnet-spam-060911.php Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:59:00 MDT http://www.weif.net/rants/singnet-spam-060911.php Letter to Jon Tester, Montana senatorial candidate about corrupt and dishonest senator, Conrad Burns. Why won't Mr. Burns apologize for insulting his constituency? http://www.weif.net/rants/untrustworthy-burns-060902.php Sat, 02 Sep 2006 22:29:00 MDT http://www.weif.net/rants/untrustworthy-burns-060902.php Microsoft software corrupting the internet as a whole - this time, Microsoft Outlook. http://www.weif.net/rants/ie-broken-060814.php Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:42:00 MDT http://www.weif.net/rants/ie-broken-060814.php More evidence that Microsoft is still playing catch-up in the software world, and particularly in the internet world - or is deliberately releasing defective software to try to perpetuate te illusion that working software is either non-existant or defective. http://www.weif.net/rants/IE-sucks-060726.php Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:30:00 MDT http://www.weif.net/rants/IE-sucks-060726.php Conrad Burns won't apologize for lying to Montanans and insulting his constituency, because the Senate Ethics Committee prohibits senators from apologizing. http://www.weif.net/rants/senate-ethics-060714.php Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:13:00 MDT http://www.weif.net/rants/senate-ethics-060714.php