Hello, I am new here

[nChrist]

A few posts back I said I was going to put some pictures of my yard and area we cleared recently, on my website.  Well, it seems this week  someone got my e-mail address on Yahoo,  by mistake and  put out where it was picked up by another someone who sent me 800 spam messages. Now my provider it limiting my e-mails, thus the pictures sent to me are lost somewhere between here and there. Until I get this fixed, I can not get the pictures into my computer and up on the website. Please bear with me on this problem.   

WOW! - I've never heard of anything like this. I've had spam problems before, but it was only 5 or 10 each day. Surely the same sender sent multiple copies over and over again. In other words, it would be almost impossible for there to be 800 separate senders sending you spam. If I were you, I would appeal to a higher up at Yahoo. One would think that Yahoo would have at least minimal spam protection set up on all of their users accounts. If so, Yahoo is definitely part of the problem, and you shouldn't be penalized in any way. If not, you still shouldn't be penalized. How would anyone suggest that you went out and requested 800 spam emails? This doesn't make any sense.

I use Gmail, and they have excellent spam protection. They also have an easy way for you to import your contact list and send out notices that you've changed your email address. Gmail does require an invitation from a current user. Holler if you would like an invitation. In the meantime, please do consider appealing to a higher up from Yahoo if you want to keep that account. There's no way that they should hold you responsible for spam. If they insist on holding someone responsible for spam, they would be the ones responsible - not you.

Love In Christ,
Tom

[David_james]

You know what? I never have posted here, therefore never welcomed island.
Welcome sister 

[islandboy]

You know I always get the weird stuff. My account at Yahoo, with e-mail, diverts all my mail to hotmail. So when this happened I contacted MSN Hotmail Support and told them what must of happened and that it was not my fault. I got back a wonderful e-mail, proably from out of the country telling me what comes into my box is not controlled by them, but by my internet provider. This was in reference to pictures I have not received. So it is not their fault, someone else is to blame. Then I got another e-mail into junk that said something about a 72 hour wait on account. So I am waiting it out in hopes all goes back to normal. Talked with provider and they said it was a hotmail problem. they just get me on the web.

David James, thanks for postings. I enjoy reading your posts and have gotten great insight off of many of them. Look forward to more fellowship with you.  Thanks.   

[Soldier4Christ]

Yep. A Hotmail account has nothing to do with your ISP. I've never had a Yahoo mail account but I did have one with Hotmail at one time. I had nothing but problems with it and received tons of spam that always overflowed and locked up the account. Since going to Gmail I haven't had the problem with spam or my account being overflowed. Gmail is free and has a much larger storage with better spam filters.

[Debp]

I have Yahoo and have never had a problem with it.  They put all suspected spam into a bulk mail folder which I delete in just a second after doing a bulk "check all" which also takes just a second to do.

The only thing is when I learned how to do email (a few years back), the young kid at the library teaching us....didn't tell us to use a username other than our real names.  So that's the only thing I wish I'd done differently. 

[islandboy]

Mainly what i received was spam cancellations. Like tried to deliver, Can't deliever, Postman returning bulk mail. I just deleted them all without opening them. The trouble is not with Yahoo mail, as much as it is with Yahoo 360 blog sites and Yahoo Groups. I had joined in the past but quit due to getting spam from people advertising their business or product. So I cancelled all of that and said I did not want communication with any member from Yahoo 360 blogs. And the spam stopped. So I was just trying to get my e-mail address back to normal operation. We are trying again to get pictures, but it is a pain when MSN Support used to help solve problems now they just don't care. Tommarrow I will e-mail Yahoo and complain.   

[islandboy]

Well, my e-mail account is back to normal. Now I just need to wait for friend to re-e-mail the pictures. Part of the problem may have been the way he tried to send them, but something else was holding things up as well. I contacted Yahoo support again and this time I put in a complaint instead. Have had no response from them yet. They are no doubt in another country as well. I am thinking about just cancelling that account all together. Anyways, hold your horses...............the pictures will be up soon.

[nChrist]

Hello Islandboy,

I'm sorry to hear about all of your e-mail problems. Most of us have had similar problems at least once. I know that I had horrible spam problems from my local ISP account, and that was one of the major reasons why I canceled it. I currently have a hotmail account that is nothing but spam, so I see no reason for keeping it.

Please don't let this get you down. I'll just pray that you find solutions that will limit or do away with the aggravation.

Love In Christ,
Tom

KEEP LOOKING UP!!

[islandboy]

Well we are back in business. The pictures are now up on my website. Go to "Road Not Taken" in navigation and you we see the fruits of our labors in the clearing of property that had been over-grown with brush.

If anyone runs into same problem I did with trying to upload pictures that were saved as jpg or jpeg, do the following if possible. Mine were sent to me by a friend. So I ask him to resend them in a different form which was gif. When I tried to save picture it only gave me the choose of saving it as a jpg again. So I saved as "Target" instead. This enabled me to save the picture as a gif file, thus something that my website would except. As most of you know saving a picture or as a target, is done by right-clicking on a picture giving you the options mentioned.
My website can be visited by clicking on the small earth globe on left side of this post, or by going to http://sweedpatch.tripod.com

[nChrist]

Hello Islandboy,

I just came from your web site, and I really enjoyed it. VERY NICE! Clearing everything looks like a lot of work. I was just wondering if you've thought about a low, flowering ground cover. I was actually thinking about Ajuga. Ajuga might be known as Vinca Minor in many parts of the country. It's a very hardy plant that multiplies, is dark green year around, easy to care for, and flowers about 3 to 4 months of the year. It only gets a couple of inches tall, so it doesn't become a problem. From a short distance, it looks like a dark green carpet, and the small flowers are in various colors. In fact, I think they would look nice on the sides of a walking path. I'm almost sure that just about any kind of barrier would stop them, so it should be easy to keep the walking path clear. There are many kinds of hardy ground cover that look nice, but I think that Ajuga requires almost no care and looks nice. It looks like you live in a beautiful place.

Love In Christ,
Tom

2 Peter 3:9 NASB
The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

[Debp]

Well we are back in business. The pictures are now up on my website. Go to "Road Not Taken" in navigation and you we see the fruits of our labors in the clearing of property that had been over-grown with brush.

If anyone runs into same problem I did with trying to upload pictures that were saved as jpg or jpeg, do the following if possible. Mine were sent to me by a friend. So I ask him to resend them in a different form which was gif. When I tried to save picture it only gave me the choose of saving it as a jpg again. So I saved as "Target" instead. This enabled me to save the picture as a gif file, thus something that my website would except. As most of you know saving a picture or as a target, is done by right-clicking on a picture giving you the options mentioned.
My website can be visited by clicking on the small earth globe on left side of this post, or by going to http://sweedpatch.tripod.com

That's quite a yard you have there, Islandboy.  The banana trees are some of my favorites.  About two blocks away there is a banana tree in the front yard of an apartment bldg.  Every now and then we see bananas on it, but not for long.    How often do they grow the bananas?

[islandboy]

Debp, As far as I know each banana tree puts fruit on once a year.
The part of yard we cleared the brush off of actually belongs to Water Management, (government). Our main concern has been having it cleared to reduce fire danger. Florida, is considered the lighting capital of the world. We have lots of really tall pine trees on the property, and we were concerned should lighting ever hit on of our trees, that if the brush got going it might spread faster than we could get it put out or control it. Also the last hurricane that gave us wind damage knocked down and broke off many of the trees that gave us some wind protection. As you can see in the background of some of the pictures is a line of brush. This was a invention of mine, as in putting up a small fence on treated stakes, the fence being light-weight mesh fencing, along the river side of property. This area gave us a  place to put all the weeds and fallen branches and cut brush, a sort of long compost bed. Each year the stuff will rot down and build up the bank of the river, and also give us a bit of wind protection. It provides a continual place to put yard waste while serving a useful purpose. For now we will be attempting to keep weeds from growing up again and hopefully be able to plant some grass or other low growing plant in there that is beneficial to wildlife in the future.
I plan to put up more pictures of our main yard so you can see how I manage plantings there. Glad you enjoyed the view.

[Shammu]

WOW! - I've never heard of anything like this. I've had spam problems before, but it was only 5 or 10 each day. Surely the same sender sent multiple copies over and over again. In other words, it would be almost impossible for there to be 800 separate senders sending you spam. If I were you, I would appeal to a higher up at Yahoo. One would think that Yahoo would have at least minimal spam protection set up on all of their users accounts. If so, Yahoo is definitely part of the problem, and you shouldn't be penalized in any way. If not, you still shouldn't be penalized. How would anyone suggest that you went out and requested 800 spam emails? This doesn't make any sense.

I use Gmail, and they have excellent spam protection. They also have an easy way for you to import your contact list and send out notices that you've changed your email address. Gmail does require an invitation from a current user. Holler if you would like an invitation. In the meantime, please do consider appealing to a higher up from Yahoo if you want to keep that account. There's no way that they should hold you responsible for spam. If they insist on holding someone responsible for spam, they would be the ones responsible - not you.

Love In Christ,
Tom

Brother it was just on the news here. One of the broadcasters told of receiving over 500 spam emails, in one day (yesterday). Never the less, he would like to get a hold of the spammer..............

Me I like my spam fried!!

[Soldier4Christ]

Me I like my spam fried!!

I like three eggs and spam.

[Shammu]

I like three eggs and spam.

Make my green eggs, with spam.

Some how I think this is off topic so would it be...........