Rants on: Internet
Keith's Rants
Rants about the internet, internet technologies, and internet abuses, such as spam and phishing.
- Issues with Online-Only Policy Are No Concern
Montana Secretary of State Supports Discrimination
January 14, 2019
- Second Letter to Montana Secretary of State Corey Stapleton
More Questions About Ethics, Professionalism, and Arrogance
December 17, 2018
- Montana Secretary of State Sends Wrong Response
A Clearly Incorrect Reply Finally Sent from Secretary Stapleton's Office
May 15, 2018
- Letter to the Montana Secretary of State Corey Stapleton
Questions of Ethical and Professional Considerations of 2017 Policy Change
April 3, 2018
- On-Line Yellow Pages
More Trouble than They Are Worth?
October 6, 2010
- Badda-Bing! Or Just Bad?
How Great Is the "New" Decision Engine from Microsoft?
September 30, 2010
- Voilating the Public Trust
What Does the City of Bozeman, MT Need to Do to Regain the Public Trust
July 14, 2009
- Bozeman Requires On-Line Passwords of Applicants
City of Bozeman Has Publicized Policy of Employment Discrimination
June 18, 2009
- How Bad Is Microsoft Support?
Incompetence in the Support System and Staff at Microsoft
September 22, 2008
- Microsoft Genuine Advantage
Microsoft Not Only Doesn't Respect the Government, They Don't Respect Their Customers
April 13, 2008
- Another Recommended Rewrite
Yahoo!'s Automated Support Reply Is Not in Synch with Their Business Practices
February 24, 2008
- A Better Cookie Solution
Why the Proposed Do-Not-Track List Can't Have the Desired Result
November 4, 2007
- Opt-In vs. Opt-Out
You'd Think the Debate Over Whether or Not to Spam Would Be Over By Now
September 19, 2007
- Blocking Ads Is Not Evil
Nor Is It Theft
August 17, 2007
- Email Confidentiality Statements
A Great Way for System Administrators to Make Fools of Corporate Executives - At the Executives' Request
June 2, 2007
- Internet Explorer Sucks
And Micorsoft Knows It, but Won't Fix It
May 15, 2007
- Reporting Spam
Doing Your Part to Control Spam
January 10, 2007
- The Abuse@ Email Address
Possibly the Most Important Part of Setting Up a Mail Server
January 7, 2007
- Another Recommended Rewrite
What Singnet.com.sg's Abuse Auto-Response Really Means
September 11, 2006
- Microsoft Outlook
More Sloppy Software from the Operating System Monopoly
August 14, 2006
- Internet Explorer
More Evidence That IE Isn't Ready for Release as a Web Browser
July 26, 2006
- A Recommended Rewrite
AT&T Internet Services Security Auto-Response
June 20, 2006
- Godaddy's Bad Page Design Loses Them Customers
And They're Proud of It
May 29, 2005
- Internet Domains Names
Making the Online World More Difficult in the Name of Making It Easier
February 24, 2005
- Standards and Marketing
Consistently Crappy Software from Microsoft and Its Impact on the Internet
December 27, 2004
- Microsoft
Bill Gates Trying (Again) to Console Computer Users by Lying to Them
October 22, 2004
- Internet Marketing Stupidities
It's Amazing the Number of Internet Marketers Who Don't Know Much About Internet Marketing
October 2, 2004
- Non-Secure Content on Secure Web Pages
An Internet Security Risk that Browsers Should Always Warn Users About
September 3, 2004
- Spam Crap
Isn't the YOU-CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 great?
August 24, 2004
- Spam Filtering
Why Email Filtering Is Part of the Spam Problem, Not Part of the Solution
July 8, 2004
- Microsoft
More on Bill Gates Deliberately Misleading or Lying to Computer Users
May 7, 2004
- Microsoft
Bill Gates Trying to Console Computer Users by Deliberately Misleading Them and Lying to Them
March 4, 2004
- Email Blacklists
One Part of the Spam Problem
January 28, 2004
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Internet Rants (and Other Neat Stuff) Links (in alphabetical order)
Happy spamiversary! Spam reaches 30
If only we could turn back the clocks of time when 393 emails was considered SPAM. You have to love Bill Gates quote which promises in 2004 that the world would be spam-free by 2006, well that's a prophecy that certainly didn't come true...
MS in Peruvian open-source nightmare
There's a letter circulating, purportedly from Peruvian Congressman David Villanueva Nuñez to Microsoft Peru, which cuts the heart out of Redmond's chief 'panic points' to chill those considering open-source migration.
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