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Here's a Spam I haven't seen before...

Thought this one was funny enough to share… =============== Dear Member, Your PayPal account has expired. You must renew it immediately or your account will be closed. If you intend to use this service in the future, you must take action at once! To continue click here, login to your PayPal account...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 01-17-2008
Filed under: Community, Internet, Messaging, Chimping
Exchange Server book by ScriptLogic VP of Marketing

We chatted with VP of Marketing at ScriptLogic, Nick Cavalancia, yesterday in a telephone interview posted to myITforum.com TV . One thing he mentioned yesterday is that he also authored a recent book on Exchange Server 2007. We’ve since added it to the myITforum.com Reading Room . Check it out…...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 12-20-2007
Filed under: Community, Messaging
Stupid is a bad word

I saw this today while doing maintenance on the myITforum.com email lists… ============== The following message sent by this account has violated system policy: Connection From: 209.34.241.244 From: admin@lists.myITforum.com To: someone@some.state.office Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:00:38 -0400 Subject...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 10-08-2007
Filed under: Community, Messaging
Exchange to SharePoint Folder Migration

Quest Software today announced their latest migration tool, Quest Migrator, to help system administrators take their Public Folder data from Exchange 2003 Servers and pull it into SharePoint (MOSS) 2007. But why you ask? Because if you’re sticking with MS Exchange, there is little choice. Read...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 11-18-2006
Filed under: Community, Messaging
What not to do on an email discussion list

There are times when you really should use an alternate email address if you want to be able to participate in an email discussion list. I posted to a list today, and then received the following return email from another member of the list (the names have been removed to protect the innocent): =====...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 09-12-2006
Filed under: Community, Messaging
Evidence that the way we do the newsletter sign-ups and unsubs is more secure

A lot of Internet sites with newsletters have quick sign-up and unsubscribe options. myITforum doesn’t do it that way — we require you to actually log into the myITforum site and make the change. Why? This article says it all… Because of warnings from e-mail security experts over the...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 06-27-2006
Filed under: Community, Messaging
Using Lotus Notes for an email client and participating in the myITforum email discussion lists?

Zac Samson gives this solution for the Lotus Notes readability problems when posting: Under my location preferences > MAIL> Format for messages addressed to internet addresses:, I had to change the setting from "MIME Format" to "Notes Rich Text Format". Also, I'm using Lotus Notes 6.5.2.

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 06-12-2006
Filed under: Community, Messaging
Ran across a funny thing sending out the newsletter today

There’s one response email that I am getting from the newsletter delivery that gave me a bit of a chuckle. There’s one unnamed individual who received the myITforum daily newsletter, that has a email responder setup on his computer. This email responder responds to EVERY email he receives...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 05-17-2006
Filed under: Community, Messaging
How to correctly apologize for grammar and spelling mistakes in email

Have you noticed when receiving emails from folks, it sometimes says things like: 1. Sent using my Windows Mobile device. 2. Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device 3. Painstakingly sent from my Blackberry So, maybe the tip here is that if you have a hard time speling or a tough time doing grammar just...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 02-28-2008
Filed under: Community, Messaging, Windows Mobile
The Gmail worm: At least, one ticket has gotten through

Reed Porter sent me an update on the Gmail issue today. He generated a help ticket on the May 23rd, and Google sent him a reply (finally) today, May 29th, saying that they are working on it. Let's hope they get this fixed quicker than they respond to helpdesk tickets.

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 05-29-2008
Filed under: Community, Messaging

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