PSoTD

This is a pretty handy site to check for IP email blacklists.

Why do people need temporary email?

This website provides you with disposable e-mail addresses which expire after 15 Minutes. You can read and reply to e-mails that are sent to the temporary e-mail address within the given time frame.

This is my final respects for epix.net, an ISP in Central Pennsylvania that I started using back in 1995. I hosted Fig Bar Man for President on that site, and The Lunacy Catapult, and other bizarre personality manifestations for a while in the 1990s. Those were heady days, where anything on the web might be popular for a day, and I actually ended up doing some radio interviews for Fig Bar Man in 1996. Weird, weird times.

But, I haven't used dialup for years, yet kept the epix account as a backup email account. Earlier this year Frontier.net bought Epix, and has been transitioning their email operations, and it appears that Frontier is dumbshitting their email operations with spamfilters in a way that somehow allows ONLY spam to get through at this point. Ugh, don't need more of that kind of behavior, since I get plenty with Comcast. So - since it isn't epix anymore, anyway, I have no sorrow about leaving Frontier, except that I'm sure I have some old contacts out there that only have that email address for me. Unfortunate.

Why do the free email providers, such as Google and Yahoo, eat your lunch as far as how they apply spamfilters to incoming email?

If I were an ISP, I think I'd be heavily considering subcontracting email services to Gmail. They seem to do a better job than practically any ISP.

It ain't pretty.

Sure seems pretty delayed in delivery today to me.

I know that in the early days of the Web, there was a belief that such kinds of "portals" would be lucrative business centers, but does anyone really go to pizza.com to find a pizza place?

This is one of the weirdest web map applications I've seen. Orgasmap? Who jumps out of bed to enter their data?