This ”Ramblin Dan” blog and about 15 other of my websites have moved (physically changed servers) from the US East Coast to the US West Coast. I not giving exact locations as I consider that information should remain confidential. It’s not secret, but I don’t want to endorse my choices. Ask, and I will tell, and you can decide if my choices would be good or bad for you. For me, I had to make...
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Broken Threads
Emails that are like a conversation and are exchanged back and forth, with each participant adding their comments above or below existing text is called threading. It lets each participant read the complete conversation as parts are added. That threading on my email servers was broken without my knowledge. I was responding to friends and customers as I usually do by adding my text and pushing reply. Customers were telling me they were not hearing...
Continue reading...POBOX Has Gone Berserk
I have been using an email service called pobox.com for four years. It is a purchased service that I began to use to provide a “collection point” for the dozens of email accounts I use with my many websites. It also provided a great email filtering service. I use a process where I direct all my accounts to their one email address that I use to send (SMTP) and read all the mail from all...
Continue reading...Time to Relax
It sure is a good feeling when problems with my Internet Service Provider (the one that hosts my web sites) have stopped being my number one concern. I realized the move from one provider to another was necessary. Ixwebhosting, my former host had fallen far behind the curve with support-software updates. My sites were operating well but were threatened to get stuck in old release versions because the support-software required was not going to be...
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