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Problems with Microsoft’s Hopelessly Inept Spam Filtering - UPDATED 2021-11-01
Last week we started receiving reports from customers that Microsoft is rejecting all EMail from our servers. We are aware of the issue and, while we regularly monitor spam...
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Aliant/CloudMark EMail issue - RESOLVED - UPDATED 2020-10-29
UPDATE 2020-11-17
Both Aliant and CloudMark have continued to ignore our repeated requests to provide any valid reason for why they blocked all mail from our server for almost...
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SSL & Google Chrome “Not Secure” Warnings
Google announced some time ago that their Chrome web browser would begin showing a \"Not Secure\" notice in the address bar, when viewing any site that doesn't use an encrypted,...
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GMail Filters Flagging Legitimate EMails as “Dangerous”
For more than six months now, since Novembe 2019, GMail has repeatedly been blocking legitimate EMails from us, and consistently ignoring all of our requests that they fix the...
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Google Knowingly Distributing Malware AGAIN - 7 days (and counting)
In the past, we've written about a previous incident where we noticed malicious files that were being hosted on Google drive, and distributed via links in spam EMails...
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Wrong Website and/or Company
If you've been sent to this page, it's because you sent us a message intended for a different company - most likely Smarty Plus or Smarty Pants Vitamins.
We have NO...
Continue ReadingMaking it Right - The Metropolitan Hotel & Spam
What's not to hate about spam?
It's about as infection-free as a dirty penny lying in spit, fills inboxes daily with offers to steal your identity, to kill you with fake...
Continue ReadingMy favorite hotel between New Brunswick and Montreal
I'm generally not a fan of hotels that perch on the edge of the highway cloverleaf, but the Comfort Inn & Suites on Route du Pont, St. Nicholas, Levis, Quebec, is such a treat, that...
Continue ReadingI dropped my iphone in the toilet
Not really, but it's the search term I used to seek examples of people with catastrophic experiences with their mobile devices - what more catastrophic than an iphone in the crapper? -...
Continue ReadingSpring Spamfest Meets Mobile Phone Bills
It seems that every year at about this time the annual spring spamfest begins. Why now? All the university business and marketing students are at their summer jobs, and many of them...
Continue ReadingDelecting EMail Accoints - Dumbest Phishing Scam Ever?
While cleaning up some old paper recently, I came across an EMail that I'd printed out back in 2009. It appears that I then promptly forgot about it, which is a shame because this is...
Continue ReadingBlackberry Playbook – first impressions 03 - More missing pieces
First of all, we're not normal users. At least not during the working day. We use computers to create and manage rather than simply consume content.
We also provide general and...
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Problems with Microsoft’s Hopelessly Inept Spam Filtering - UPDATED 2021-11-01
Aliant/CloudMark EMail issue - RESOLVED - UPDATED 2020-10-29
SSL & Google Chrome “Not Secure” Warnings
GMail Filters Flagging Legitimate EMails as “Dangerous”
Google Knowingly Distributing Malware AGAIN - 7 days (and counting)
Wrong Website and/or Company
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