Re: [CGUYS] No call list
No. The Do Not Call List specifically targets commercial marketing. Non-profits are also exempt; not just political campaigns. Stop jumping like puppets! Thank you, Mark Snyder -Original Message- Politicians are not stupid. They always exempt themselves from the same laws they expect you and me to follow. Did you not now, being a politician means you are part of a super elite Americans (In many cases not all see Sen. Craig, they are exempt from prosecution.) Many of the laws do not cover politicians. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] CGUYS.ORG Footer Updated
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Re: [CGUYS] No call list
Actually the Do not call list is very cleverly written. I have cable TV that does not stop the satellite folks from calling me. But I registered on the Do Not Call list. However the Satellite is being marketed by my local Phone Company who I have a relationship with, so therefore they have a right to call me. I have insurance. However I still get phone calls for disaster insurance, maintenance insurance, etc. All marketed by my Mortgage company. They have a right to call me. Do you see a pattern. The Do Not Call list is written in such a way to prevent competition from calling you. Only those companies you already have a relationship with are allowed to call you. So it is not as much a do not call list, but a do let anyone who does not have a relationship call you list. (OK I know that was all carping but it is still a cleverly written bill that does not prevent unwanted phone calls, but just limits who can call you.) Stewart At 06:19 AM 2/19/2008, you wrote: No. The Do Not Call List specifically targets commercial marketing. Non-profits are also exempt; not just political campaigns. Stop jumping like puppets! Thank you, Mark Snyder Rev. Stewart A. Marshall mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Prince of Peace Ozark, AL SL 82 * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Wikipedia defies 180,000 demands to remove images o
OK as the resident theologian here on the list let me give you my interpretation and knowledge on this issue. Also a propos is the recent (widely attacked) speech by the Archbishop of Canterbury Civil and Religious Law in England. He points out that in order to expect tolerance from others it is also necessary to exhibit tolerance ourselves, but he also points out that there are definite limits on what we should tolerate (forced marriages for example). I have prayed O Lord how can I get this thread back on topic? And I got an answer! So should Wikipedia provide a set of user preferences? No sex please I'm immature No pictures please I'm Moslem No other religions but mine please, I'm intolerent No freedom please, I'm Chineese. No Macs please, I'm a Gates fan boy. Should this be uniformly enforced Web wide? Should ICANN spawn ICANT? This would make a lot of people very happy. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Wikipedia defies 180,000 demands to remove images of the Prophet
If you Google it you get the answer in the first item of the Google list of hits, without even having to go to the hit page. I'll bet some folks use it for a password? Fred Holmes At 09:00 PM 2/18/2008, Robert Michael Abrams wrote: There are ALREADY some 5,878,499,814,186.5 websites with graphic images of sex acts on [their respective] home page[s]. Where have YOU been? Oh. I almost forgot: You need to be over 18, and I'll need a valid credit card before we can proceed. Extra credit to anybody who knows the significance of the number I used. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Wikipedia defies 180,000 demands to remove images o
Should this be uniformly enforced Web wide? Should ICANN spawn ICANT? It is not just the Moslems. Latest news... WIKILEAKS.ORG DOWN AFTER EX-PARTE LEGAL ATTACK BY CAYMAN ISLANDS BANK http://88.80.13.160/wiki/Wikileaks.org_under_injunction * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] DRM Dead? Was: [Re: [CGUYS] List Future [Was: CGUYS.ORG Footer Updated]]
On an exciting note Walmart's Music download page offers MP3 files for an added $0.06 which rids us of that intrusive DRM. I found that my Sansa would loose its DRM info if it was not hooked to the computer and synced occasionally(once a month). All songs without DRM were unaffected. I hope this is the end of DRM songs. The only question is, will they let me pay $0.06 to remove the DRM from the songs I purchased in the wma format? We can only hope. Mike Tom Piwowar wrote: broader issues of computer use (DCMA, Net Neutrality, etc.) * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Word
Write a Word macro to do it. It should be straightforward if you are fluent in VBA. Fred Holmes At 08:10 AM 2/19/2008, Jay Montero wrote: Anyone know of a way I could insert a person's name in a Word document and have that somehow trigger the pulling in of related data off some database or spreadsheet? I know this is more of a database function but the final document needs to be in a Word format. So, in other words, say I was to type in a list of presidents names, the function would be to insert their terms directly beneath their names. Can this be done? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] No call list
(OK I know that was all carping but it is still a cleverly written bill that does not prevent unwanted phone calls, but just limits who can call you.) Look at it from the other side. If you phone me at work should I be prohibited from returning the call? Do I have to look you up in a database first? Should I be required to subscribe to the database, which ain't free? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] expanding archives (was Re: [CGUYS] Subject: Re: CG
This is very timely. I'd like to expand (don't want to use that other ex word) some email archive files that are open and available to the public. These files are from some public mailing lists, they are text files (generally one file per month's worth of traffic), and they often are named something.mail. The purpose is to extract and organize messages having certain specific threads/subjects. It would be great if I could open/import/convert such a file and use an email client to see it as a folder or mailbox of individual messages. Saving a file of a useful subset of extracted messages would be nice, too. Any suggestions? Maybe it's as simple as changing the file extension and using the right client? Good chance that these are in mailbox format. You can Google that and examine the files to see if they look like that. Unfortunately there are different flavors of mailbox format and different programs handle different flavors. Thunderbird and Eudora should handle some of them. You can find converter scripts on the Web. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] expanding archives
Thanks, good point, but it doesn't apply here. These archives date back years, and in any case I wasn't subscribed to them at the time. I'm now researching mailbox formats as Tom just suggested. -Andy Tony B wrote: Firstly, make sure you aren't subscribed to the digest. It makes no sense to subscribe to a digest (that combines messages) and then break the messages apart later. You are not saving bandwidth or anything, you're only delaying delivery, making timely participation impossible. Not to mention adding a whole layer of unnecessary complexity. On Feb 19, 2008 10:19 AM, Andy Gallant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be great if I could open/import/convert such a file and use an email client to see it as a folder or mailbox of individual messages. /snip/ * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] No call list
So it is not as much a do not call list, but a do let anyone who does not have a relationship call you list. Another part of the Do Not Call legislation is these places must provide means for you to ask them not to call you again and they must comply if you ask. Even automated calls usually provide a number to press if you do not wish to receive any more calls from them, or they have an option to talk to a human at which point you can ask them to remove you from their list. My elderly mother was receiving several calls a week from questionable companies offering all sorts of things for older people (supplemental insurance of questionable value, services she already gets through other sources, warranty deals on things that are well beyond the need to be warranteed, etc.). I started answering the phone and telling them to bug off since she had some trouble navigating their menus or often felt she had to apologize and such when talking to them. She doesn't feel that way anymore and has asked several to leave her alone. The phone calls she gets have dropped to only a few a month now, usually from places claiming prior business or from non-profits... I personally hate opt-out b.s. (I don't believe they should call in the first place) but at least the majority in my experience have stopped calling when I asked them to. -- Michael Lewis Off Balance Productions [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.offbalance.com * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Wikipedia defies 180,000 demands to remove images o
It is not just the Moslems. Latest news... And in today's news FireFox 3 Beta blocks sites that Google has identified as sources of malware. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] DRM Dead? Was: [Re: [CGUYS] List Future [Was: CGUYS
On an exciting note Walmart's Music download page offers MP3 files for an added $0.06 which rids us of that intrusive DRM... The only question is, will they let me pay $0.06 to remove the DRM from the songs I purchased in the wma format? We can only hope. Apple let customers upgrade for the difference in the price, but it was all or nothing. That is, you had to upgrade your entire library at once. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] expanding archives
Firstly, make sure you aren't subscribed to the digest. It makes no sense to subscribe to a digest (that combines messages) and then break the messages apart later. You are not saving bandwidth or anything, you're only delaying delivery, making timely participation impossible. Not to mention adding a whole layer of unnecessary complexity. On Feb 19, 2008 10:19 AM, Andy Gallant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be great if I could open/import/convert such a file and use an email client to see it as a folder or mailbox of individual messages. I get the MIME digest. The footer would show up between every message if I read it that way. But I use Eudora to read my digests, and I use its ability to explode MIME digests back into individual messages. So the way I see the digest is as a mailbox full of individual messages that can be sorted by subject, date, etc., and each with its own footer. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] No call list
On Feb 19, 2008, at 9:23 AM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: So it is not as much a do not call list, but a do let anyone who does not have a relationship call you list. I get occasional phone calls from businesses I have no relationship with whatsoever. Just a couple of days ago a newly opened Kinko's called my house to inform me of their grand opening. They had earlier sent me a postcard informing me of the same event. Does the fact that about 10 years ago I used a Kinko's for some copying constitute a relationship? I am not even at the same address or phone number as I was back then. I get calls from some financial lending institutions from time to time as well, and have called them back to complain. Each time I call all I get is an apology, but the fact remains that they were able to get away with having made the call in the first place. I get calls from a collection agency that is looking for someone I have never heard of. They have a wrong phone number that just happens to be my number, but I cannot get them to stop calling a number of times each week. They claim this in the number they were given, thus they will keep calling because they legally can. The calls are automatically generated, but a live person will respond when the phone is answered unless that Please hold on. We have an important message for you. recording comes on. Apparently a relationship is not connected to the person in who's name the phone is listed, but rather simply to whatever phone number they have in their records even if it is the wrong number for the person they are seeking to speak with. Steve * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] brute force solution Re: [CGUYS] expanding archives
Tom, thanks for the lead. Here's a brute force solution it led to: 1. Copied a file to the Local Folders folder somewhere under ...\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\... . 2. Tried deleting the file extension or changing it to mbox. Each way worked when I tested it. 3. Started Thunderbird. Went to the local folder that just appeared. Voila! Thunderbird builds the msf file it uses. It turns out that the untyped files in the above folder are in mbox format (as far as I can tell). In the past, I've backed up some Local Folder folders just by copying the corresponding file. Now I know I can use this for the extracts as well. This will be very helpful and save me lots of time and effort. Who knew? Thanks again. -Andy Tom Piwowar wrote: This is very timely. I'd like to expand (don't want to use that other ex word) some email archive files that are open and available to the public. These files are from some public mailing lists, they are text files (generally one file per month's worth of traffic), and they often are named something.mail. The purpose is to extract and organize messages having certain specific threads/subjects. It would be great if I could open/import/convert such a file and use an email client to see it as a folder or mailbox of individual messages. Saving a file of a useful subset of extracted messages would be nice, too. Any suggestions? Maybe it's as simple as changing the file extension and using the right client? Good chance that these are in mailbox format. You can Google that and examine the files to see if they look like that. Unfortunately there are different flavors of mailbox format and different programs handle different flavors. Thunderbird and Eudora should handle some of them. You can find converter scripts on the Web. /snip/ * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] expanding archives (was Re: [CGUYS] Subject: Re: CGUYS.ORG Footer Updated)
This is very timely. I'd like to expand (don't want to use that other ex word) some email archive files that are open and available to the public. These files are from some public mailing lists, they are text files (generally one file per month's worth of traffic), and they often are named something.mail. The purpose is to extract and organize messages having certain specific threads/subjects. It would be great if I could open/import/convert such a file and use an email client to see it as a folder or mailbox of individual messages. Saving a file of a useful subset of extracted messages would be nice, too. The base machine for this is WinXP Pro - available clients so far are MS Outlook 03, Outlook Express (never use it), Mozilla Thunderbird, and Eudora (just downloaded and trying things). So far, nothing that I have tried does for me what John's configuration does (drat!). Googling hasn't turned up a workaround yet. Any suggestions? Maybe it's as simple as changing the file extension and using the right client? TIA. -Andy John A. Newitt wrote: /snip/ I get the MIME digest. The footer would show up between every message if I read it that way. But I use Eudora to read my digests, and I use its ability to explode MIME digests back into individual messages. So the way I see the digest is as a mailbox full of individual messages that can be sorted by subject, date, etc., and each with its own footer. - John * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Do Not Call Lists
Some thoughts. I found that one of the best solutions for dealing with unsolicited phone traffic is an answering machine with caller-id or a speaker. They rarely bother if the machine picks up first. If I hear a familiar voice say my name, I can pick-up or return the call. My caller-id shows that there are a LOT of 800 numbers calling during the day. You can often check them out with 800notes.com and with whocalled.us. I'm sure there are others. The doing business bit with the do not call registry is within the last 6 months, IIRC. You usually have to UNcheck the box that permits third party businesses from contacting you, phone or email. I now have Comcast digital voice and can block 12 numbers at a time. I keep an Excel sheet of numbers and dates they call. If one shows more than once or twice, it gets blocked. Groceries rotate their stock, I rotate 800 numbers on my blocked callers list. YMMV -- I'm as pure as the driven slush. - Tallulah Bankhead * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Wikipedia defies 180,000 demands to remove images o
www.microsoft.com? On Feb 19, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: And in today's news FireFox 3 Beta blocks sites that Google has identified as sources of malware. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] DTV converters for old analog sets
www.dtv.gov for information about the program www.dtv2009.gov for your free coupons for $40 off a converter (or $80 off 2 converters). The converters are reportedly just reaching the stores. Wal-mart has them on-line. They have been seen in Best Buy in some remote areas of the country. The coupons, which are valid for 90 days, will be mailed out when the converters are available, so they are supposedly just starting the mailings. There are still problems receiving the digital signals in many areas. Some of the stations are supposedly not yet using their full authorized power. Many people are complaining that they can't receive digital signals from stations that had previously been OK with analog. Also, a couple of years ago there were reportedly big differences in the ability of sets to receive the signals, but this has supposedly been resolved. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Word
If you have the original information in a database or excel format you can format information in word using the mail merge function. Under the options you can select the database location cell selection and order. It won't auto pull from your entry, but will still auto pull from a database and create an order in word. Jo -Original Message- From: Jay Montero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 7:10 AM Subject: Word Anyone know of a way I could insert a person's name in a Word document and have that somehow trigger the pulling in of related data off some database or spreadsheet? I know this is more of a database function but the final document needs to be in a Word format. So, in other words, say I was to type in a list of presidents names, the function would be to insert their terms directly beneath their names. Can this be done? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Do Not Call Lists
I have heard of people doing the following: they get select a ring or smart ring or whatever their phone company is calling it this month. Any directory listing for the person will be for the primary phone number at that location. They put a fax machine on that number, and only pick up for the secondary number. Of course, I disconnected my fax machine a couple of years ago (who sends faxes when Email is cheaper, faster, and easier?). I still get a few faxes every morning. We used to have the phone listed in my wife's unpronouncable maiden name (no extra charge to have the phone listed in any name you want, though there is a one-time charge [about $15] to change the listing). We ended that 5 years ago. Just yesterday I got a charitable call from someone who fumbled the name. I asked who it was, said I gave at the office or something, and hung up. I'm now starting to get text-message spam on my cell phone. This annoys me because my plan requires me to pay for all text messages (I don't use the feature myself). It's not a problem YET: I get far more wrong numbers than text messages. At 12:58 PM 2/19/2008, MrMike6by9 wrote: Some thoughts. I found that one of the best solutions for dealing with unsolicited phone traffic is an answering machine with caller-id or a speaker. They rarely bother if the machine picks up first. If I hear a familiar voice say my name, I can pick-up or return the call. My caller-id shows that there are a LOT of 800 numbers calling during the day. You can often check them out with 800notes.com and with whocalled.us. I'm sure there are others. The doing business bit with the do not call registry is within the last 6 months, IIRC. You usually have to UNcheck the box that permits third party businesses from contacting you, phone or email. I now have Comcast digital voice and can block 12 numbers at a time. I keep an Excel sheet of numbers and dates they call. If one shows more than once or twice, it gets blocked. Groceries rotate their stock, I rotate 800 numbers on my blocked callers list. YMMV -- I'm as pure as the driven slush. - Tallulah Bankhead * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Fwd: [IP] Bush's IRS Wants to Make Your Tax Returns Public
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Begin forwarded message: From: dewayne@ (Dewayne Hendricks) Date: February 18, 2008 6:28:21 PM EST To: Dewayne-Net Technology List Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Bush's IRS Wants to Make Your Tax Returns Public [Note: This item comes from reader Jack Unger. DLH] From: Jack Unger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: February 18, 2008 2:49:44 PM PST To: Dewayne Hendricks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bushs IRS Wants to Make Your Tax Returns Public A new article from the Philadelphia Inquirer has blown open the startling plans of the IRS http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/business/14147002.htm to allow tax preparers for the first time to sell the tax returns of their customers. The proposal came in a painfully technical tax regulation http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=151368,00.html , which until now had attracted only a dozen public comments since it was announced in December. The proposal calls itself not a significant regulatory action http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-regs/13724302.pdf . But the proposal is indeed significant, both for tax privacy and more broadly. Until now, tax preparers could not sell tax returns to outside parties. Period. If they got taxpayer consent, they could use it for marketing, but only within their own corporate family. *The new proposal allows the tax preparers - from your local accountant to giants such as HR Block - to get your signature and then give or sell the full tax return to data brokers, to your boss, to /anyone/. And there are absolutely no restrictions about what recipients do with the returns.* The rule lets recipients post the full return to the Internet if they want... http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/23/bushs-irs-wants-to-make-your-tax-returns-public/ * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] DTV converters for old analog sets
The converters are reportedly just reaching the stores. Have you seen any reviews? Do they all come from the same factory in China? Do some do better with weak signals? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Stopping shortcuts from being automatically added to the start menu
I have a Windows XP computer that has me log on as Owner. When I use a program, I find that a program shortcut automatically gets pinned (added) to the start menu. How can I stop this? I did brief Google searches and cannot find an answer. Thanks, Michael Michael S. Altus, PhD, ELS Intensive Care Communications, Inc.(R) Biomedical Writing and Editing Baltimore MD; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL Living. (http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-duffy/2050827?NCID=aolcmp0030002598) * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Do Not Call Lists
We get no unsolicited calls at all on our VOIP line. I think I'm on the Do Not Call list, but that wouldn't explain the lack of calls from political candidates. Maybe the DC area code misleads them? But then, why don't I get calls from DC area candidates? *Everybody* in DC got an automated recorded call last week from our kid mayor telling us about his support of Obama. It is bad when candidates have too much money. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Stopping shortcuts from being automatically added to the start menu
On Feb 19, 2008 3:56 PM, Michael S. Altus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I use a program, I find that a program shortcut automatically gets pinned (added) to the start menu. How can I stop this? I did brief Google searches and cannot find an answer. Every time you use a program, it adds another shortcut to the Start menu? So in a week you get several hundred shortcuts added (I probably start Firefox alone 40 times a week)? Thanks. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] No call list
I have an answering machine. I audit phone calls. I don't pick up unless it's someone I want to talk to. Suggested outgoing message: ...We're home. Keep talking. If we decide that you're worthy, one of us will answer the phone--maybe...Selling something? Hang up. Otherwise leave a message... I never give money to people who call me asking for donations--except relatives, sometimes. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation called last week and asked me to renew my membership; I told them I'd do it online or by mail, but not over the phone unless I initiate the call. Betty * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Do Not Call Lists
At 04:10 PM 2/19/2008, Tony B wrote: We get no unsolicited calls at all on our VOIP line. I think I'm on the Do Not Call list, but that wouldn't explain the lack of calls from political candidates. Maybe the DC area code misleads them? But then, why don't I get calls from DC area candidates? Maybe the exchange isn't in their directories. We get calls for my children who have been registered voters in Mass for years. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Do Not Call Lists
At 02:47 PM 2/19/2008, Fred Holmes wrote: With Verizon Wireless you can decline text messaging, i.e., turn it off altogether, if that works for you. I did it verbally, i.e., by calling customer service and asking them to turn off all texting to/from my phone. Thanks. There are a few uses for text messaging: in emergencies it will get through even if the network is overloaded (think 911); and airlines will text message you on flight information. And that's about it. I used to get weather messages, but found it was more convenient to call the weather bureau. I've got the weather bureaus up and down the east coast in my dialing directory Fred Holmes At 02:02 PM 2/19/2008, David Chessler wrote: I'm now starting to get text-message spam on my cell phone. This annoys me because my plan requires me to pay for all text messages (I don't use the feature myself). It's not a problem YET: I get far more wrong numbers than text messages. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Stopping shortcuts from being automatically added to the start menu
I think you're seeing WinXP being helpful. In particular, the Start menu contains shortcuts to the programs you use most often. To change the number of shortcuts displayed, try this: 1. Right-click on the start button and select Properties. 2. Select the Start Menu tab. 3. Assuming the (not Classic) Start Menu button is selected, click Customize. 4. Under Programs, try lowering the number to 0. Then OK your way out. -Andy John DeCarlo wrote: On Feb 19, 2008 3:56 PM, Michael S. Altus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I use a program, I find that a program shortcut automatically gets pinned (added) to the start menu. How can I stop this? I did brief Google searches and cannot find an answer. Every time you use a program, it adds another shortcut to the Start menu? So in a week you get several hundred shortcuts added (I probably start Firefox alone 40 times a week)? Thanks. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Do Not Call Lists
At 06:54 PM 2/19/2008, gerald wrote: I think one of the reasons this recorded message from an 800 number is so popular is that it is really cheap. 800 numbers are actually inward WATS. A PBX can be programmed to provide any number you want. Large corporations will program it to give the general switchboard number, rather than the direct number of the person calling you. Telemarketers will give an 800 number for the same sort of reason. FCC rules require the caller ID number to be legitimate * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Do Not Call Lists
I didn't read all the posts in this topic thread...I've wondered what happens to the guys who think the DNC is not working and re-up ...does that open a 90 day window for the callers to call you waiting for that period to expire when they MUST honor your request resulting in worsening of the situation in the short run?? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] No call list
On Feb 19, 2008, at 7:36 PM, b_s-wilk wrote: Suggested outgoing message: ...We're home. Keep talking. If we decide that you're worthy, one of us will answer the phone--maybe...Selling something? Hang up. Otherwise leave a message... Here's mine: Hello. You have reached the number that you dialed. Please leave a message. Thank you. Steve * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
