[600MRG] Various information

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

OK. Many of you may have noticed (yeah...right) that the forum was down for a bit.

The reasons are somewhat complex, but basically, yahoo, which has positioned itself to 
become the ONLY carrier for all e-mail at least in the U.S., if not in North America, has 
instituted a "new" "security" "feature" which automatically assumes that any e-mails which 
originate from any forum which is NOT part of their yahoogroups unit is S*P*A*M*, period, 
and their system then automatically originates a message to any ISP's "abuse" section 
detailing the e-mail and warning against it.

In the process, most ISPs systems, when they receive such an e-mail, will then automatically 
shut down any source of that e-mail.

Our entire website was "suspended" due to this.

When I then contacted our ISP and originated a "Trouble Ticket" on the issue of our website 
being suspended, they cleared the suspension, but informed me that they had no idea why 
this had happened, and that it must have been an error within their system.

Then, this morning, I received yet another e-mail from my ISP's "abuse" office telling me that 
if I did not answer the request for information within 24 hours, our website would again, be 
suspended.

Shortly after I called my ISP and discussed this issue, I then received an e-mail from their 
"abuse" section, containing an e-mail which Rudy recently sent to the forum concerning his 
back-stay issues, asking me if it was legitimate.

I then replied in the affirmative, and then went on to detail what I had learned from OTHER 
forums this morning.

Now, all we can do is wait to see what happens.

Furthermore, another issue has arisen for those of us who have added a means to our TV 
sets to watch youtube videos on it: the screen now includes some weird orange warning bar 
at the bottom and a black screen which shows some picture parameters on it. There is 
widespread complaint and discussion about this on the web.

I really wish people would leave things alone.

Later,

Ken W7EKB
SYSAD (and a pissed off one too)

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