So perhaps you have used a web-interface to create new subfolders on an IMAP server. The problem is that thunderbird doesn’t show them, and no amount of clicking on things seems to solve the problem or show these subfolders.
The answer is to click on the account in question (i.e. one level up from your Inbox), then click “Manage Folder Subscriptions”. From there on it should be obvious – find the folders, and tick the boxes. Job done.
If there was anywhere I thought would have more sense than to pass on email addresses, it would be the 10 Downing Street petitions system. But no, they too have leaked my address – the tell-tale method of mine to use a different alias for every website points the finger again. Now don’t get me wrong, I have almost no respect for any arm of the government, but the system is run by MySociety so I’m quite surprised.
Dear webmaster at PMO.gov.uk,
As the owner of the gravitystorm.co.uk domain, I frequently choose different email addresses to use on different websites, so that I can trace who is providing my email addresses to third parties. The email address petitions@[redacted].co.uk has been used exclusively on the “petitions.pm.gov.uk” website. I’m sure you can see how I can be certain that it is only you, and I, who have knowledge of this alias.
Can you please inform me as to whether you, or your contractors for the site (“MySociety”) are responsible for passing on my address to the fraudsters who emailed me (see below). I can provide the full messages that I received today if this helps in any way.
Please note that I am fully aware that you have nothing to do with the spam itself, but you are quite obviously leaking my email address to third parties without my permission.
Many thanks,
Andy Allan——– Original Message ——–
Subject: LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION{CONGRATULATIONS}
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:32:37 -0800
From: UK COVENTRY PROMOTIONS <coventrylotterypromotions @coventrylotto.com>
Reply-To: covpayer34@aim.com
To: petitions@[redacted].co.uk
I doubt this will get anywhere, but I may as well fish for an apology (and who knows, it might even prod them into fixing whichever hole these email addresses are leaking from).
In Thunderbird, sorting by date with the newest emails at the top means the little arrow on the column header points up. But in Outlook, sorting by date with the newest emails at the top means the little arrow points down.
This vexes me. I never know whether I want the arrow to point up, or down, since I can’t remember which application does which. I always want the newest at the top (apart from when I’m sorting by name or something else for a minute, but then I want it back to normal), but the arrow is completely useless as an indicator, since there’s not enough info to tell which way is which. Anyone have any better suggestions for visual feedback?
Telephone phone number numbers geographic non-geographic premium-rate. http://www.saynoto0870.com/.
(I keep using this website, and keep forgetting its url. I can search my own weblog like a mini-google now!)
It always amazes me when people complain about flaws in the open source desktop world’s UI, since Microsoft UI can be stunningly retarded. My pet peeve is Office.
Not all of Office though, just one thing. And it annoys me weekly. And it’s really quite retarded.
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…and while I’m on the whole music thing, I’ve set up my music player (the wonderful amaroK) to report back to last.fm / audioscrobbler with the details of what I’m listening to. Amarok can suggest songs for you, based on what you’ve got and what people like on last.fm. So I’m helping anyone out there who has similar music tastes to me. You can see what I’m listening to, as well as my favourite tracks, artists and albums, by looking at my profile.
What really caught my attention was when I noticed the list of “neighbours” – people who live in the same musical-taste area as me. Top of the list? Why, naughty_jude, apparently. Now who could that be?
Adam posts about Google’s web accelerator, and gives a fairly simple explaination about what’s going on. Or even more simply, because the web accelerator “clicks” on everything on your behalf, when you log into a website, google might click on things you rather it didn’t. Like logout, or delete, or reset, or so on.
The argument is now going back and forth on technical points (like RFCs), but that’s missing the point. Basically, Google are acting like a prick. They’re doing something that they know is going to, rightly or wrongly, cause a lot of trouble. Hence they’re being pricks. Plain and simple. I don’t care whether indeed what they are doing is right or wrong, what the interpretation of “SHOULD NOT” might be. But the fact that the arguments are about details like that is just an indication that the argument is occuring between techies who lack basic social skills. Continue reading
Chip and Pin, Eh? (1,2,3). Ed, you’re wrong – if you have your card in your pocket, and you haven’t disclosed you PIN to anyone, you aren’t liable for any transactions that take place. It’s exactly the same as with signatures. If you’ve lost your card, you’re liable for anything that takes place before you report it lost. It’s exactly the same as with signatures.
To the anonymous commentor on Ed’s weblog, it’s only for signature based fraud that the retailer is liable – without this clause, the retailers would never have converted to Chip and PIN in the first place.
And finally, I think Steve was right with the gist of his first article – Chip and PIN is better than signatures. Sure, it’s not perfect, but it’s better. The website that Ed links to (“Chip and Spin“, doyouseewhatthey’vedonethere) falls into the common trap of pointing out flaws that were in the old system as well – and so shouldn’t be implied as problems with Chip and PIN.
For all the arguements about different email applications (and whether they are “enterprise” applications or not), there are two problems with email apps that I haven’t seen fixed anywhere – and both are to do with having conversations. Which is pretty fundamental really, since that’s what email is primarily used for.
The first things is the Sent Items folder (or whatever your application / mailbox calls it). I don’t like it. I don’t like the concept. Sure, knowing which emails were sent by me is important, but it’s trivial to work out. What I would much prefer is to keep all the messages in a conversation in the one place, so I can look at the screen, and see all 10 emails in a 10 email conversation. Mailing lists are great for this, since I get a copy back of what I sent, and it ends up nestled in amongst the rest of the conversation. If I reply to an email, I want the reply to be shown right beside the original. Anyone know of an email app that does this? I don’t really care where the email is filed, since that’s just an implemenation detail, I just want it displayed the way I want.
Secondly, ad-hoc groups of addresses are very poorly handled by email. For a growing list of people trying to arrange something, I need to make sure to include the most up-to-date list of CC’s in the conversation, which is a pain if I want to reply to a suggestion made a few hours previously. Sure, there are mailing lists, but setting them up just to arrange a theatre visit one week is a bit overkill. Micromanagement of lists of address is surely a solvable problem. Suggestions? (Preferably ones that don’t involve changing the fundamentals of SMTP or requiring everyone to use the same application…)
