[ic] Hotmail....BAD

[Jeff Fearn]

Wow imagine a world where everyone is judged by the actions of others, guilt 
by association. Yeah for democracy!

Imagine you are a contractor, who spends their time at different customer 
sites and you want to have a central place where customers can contact you. 
Rather easy as hotmail supports getting mail from a pop3 account. You can 
email any abuse to jfearn@labf.org, jfearn@optus.net.au or 
DarthBobo@edgenetwk.com These being my non free accounts that are 
inconvienient to access individually.

I suppose it would also be a crime against humanity for someone to try and 
learn how IC works _befor_ they actually start a business, who the hell 
would want to help someone stupid enough to have a poor idea like that?

I think that in future the list should not help anyone who wears a hat, or 
drives a car with 13 inch wheels. Stupidity for all!

Love and mung beans, Jeff.

>I am going to launch a tirade here which will earn me flames, so I've put 
>on
>my asbestos suit!
>
>In my personal opinion, MOST people playing with Interchange are using it 
>to
>run a store. (www.freecell.com is one of the lovely exceptions.)
>
>It's difficult for me to understand how someone can run a store without
>having a specific domain name for it. Even if it's
>www.mystore.multihost.bestserver.domain.com
>I'm really turned off when I see a store being run - even with an
>appropriate domain name and the order admin messages come from an AOL or
>Hotmail, or Yahoo, etc address. It leads me to want to cancel the order, 
>and
>clearly tells me that I need to use PayPal, or a charge card that I can
>quickly throw away when it becomes compromised. To me they are only
>'wannabe's' and not yet ready for prime time.
>
>And, frankly, I frequently pass by requests for help on this list that come
>from a free e-mail provider, like hotmail, yahoo, etc.
>
>I guess that some of this has been caused by warnings from my charge card
>processors to be careful of customers using the free e-mail services. They
>are saying that a significant amount of their fraud is from people using 
>the
>free e-mail services.
>
>I think that if you are unable (or unwilling) to get your own domain name
>and maintain it properly - with e-mail addresses - (even if it takes 
>getting
>help from your ISP) that you are not ready to tackle a complex package like
>Interchange.
>
>(Domain Discover is an EXCELLENT registrar! For $50 they will register your
>domain name for 2 years, host your web page and provide e-mail addresses, I
>doubt that they will supply Interchange, but they will put in the links to
>forward that domain to a server that has IC.)
>
>I don't know how other people on this list feel about supplying help to
>people from the free e-mail providers........
>
>I would appreciate it if all flames were sent to /dev/null
>These opinions are strictly my own, and clearly demonstrate that I am a
>cantankerous Olde Farte
>
>
>-= Jim =-
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