Amerika - Force of Occupation

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Fix It Until It's Broke -- Part II

Wednesday, January 11, 2012 6:53:43 PM

Caveat: I would like to preface this post with the statement that contempt prior to investigation has served me well over the years, and I see no reason to change this practice merely to protect the sensibilities of the Opera-folk.
Mail is replacing messages

At the end of January, our messaging system will be changed to My Opera Mail.

The good news? You already have My Opera Mail! Just visit your mailbox to start sending and receiving e-mail. Your e-mail address is your My Opera username followed by @myopera.com; 0x29a@myopera.com.

Going forward, all correspondence with other My Opera members will go through My Opera Mail. Any earlier messages you have in your inbox will go into a read-only archive.
 I'm sure it will be a disaster.

I'm Too Tired To Articulate This Myself.The Most Propagandized People On Earth

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Harry Scrivenharrytheman Wednesday, January 11, 2012 8:51:21 PM

You really feel that way? I've already abandoned my other email addresses for my myopera one (does sarcasm translate into blog replies?) wink

slackwrdave Wednesday, January 11, 2012 11:06:46 PM

I assume that rolling messages into mail is to eliminate redundancy and put to use something that their coders more recently made, but yes, it may well be a disaster. Notice that there's a fairly slim (by today's standards) capacity to myopera mail.

I had high hopes that when regular operamail (operamail.com) was brought back in house from that nasty Outblaze (or was that 2 providers back?), that things might improve, but it continues to languish as it has for years. It's been unusable nearly from the get-go.

PainterWoman Friday, January 13, 2012 5:35:45 AM

I've had so many pc issues since taking it out of the packing boxes a year ago that nothing will surprise me. I will await to see what happens.

0x29a Friday, January 13, 2012 9:43:50 PM

I woke up the day after posting this and got on my.opera. The very first thing I noticed was that I had a message. It was in operamail. The content of that first ever operamail message? This:

Hi Dear !
How are you doing today i,hope every thing is fine,? if so thanks be to God almighty who made it so ,My name is Anita and i am a girl 23 years old. I saw on your email address today in my Google search page so I decided to extend my greetings to you.

Right now I can’t really say what prompted my drive to write you, but I do have the mind that you could be a nice person.

I have an interest to meet people from out side my continent to be friends. It is my Believe that there are nice people out there who can appreciate the value of friendship.

Personal I might not be very beautiful physically like most ladies in your country, but I think I have a beautiful mind, and the beauty to hold my own. Which is more valuable to me, and to be your friend even more than that ,but as time goes on we will know better.

I will be very glad if you can contact me thorough my alternative email address, so that i can send you my pictures and tell you more about myself here is my adress(anitabeby_1@yahoo.com)
Hoping to talk to you soon ,have a nice day and remain Blessed.
Regards,
Anita.

I started posting a diatribe on the matter, but managed to destroy the post in my still-asleep state. I never developed the mojo of that indignant moment again, so I haven't tried since.

The whole thing is just a bad idea.

The full transcript of the email is here for those of you that enjoy dissecting SMTP headers.

slackwrdave Saturday, January 14, 2012 6:30:24 AM

I think anitabeby sent me one too! I always wonder why a yahoo mail contact address is a fave with these spammers.

0x29a Saturday, January 14, 2012 11:12:31 AM

Originally posted by anitabeby:

I do have the mind that you could be a nice person.


Dear Anita,

There is no way I can be for you. I am an asshole. You are clearly an idiot.

Better luck next time.

slackwrdave Saturday, January 14, 2012 4:06:26 PM

Originally posted by 0x29a:

I am an asshole


Oh, me too. Part of being a participant in the world famous Southern hospitality is that one becomes a master in coating everything with Southern charm. It's cute, and charming, but underneath is mega asshole. I guess that means the whole thing is a charade. bigsmile

Russ Lillygargoyle38 Saturday, January 14, 2012 4:54:42 PM

I have a bad feeling about the change, too:
but I don't like change, ie favorite neat bars becoming fancy gift shops and stuff like that.

Brian Francis PretoriusBrianFrances Saturday, January 14, 2012 9:00:11 PM

Some motorcar manufacturers do the same kind of thing, messing with things that worked perfectly until they are so complicated to operate that it has become an unpleasant experience.

0x29a Saturday, January 14, 2012 9:29:18 PM

Originally posted by slackwrdave:

Part of being a participant in the world famous Southern hospitality is that one becomes a master in coating everything with Southern charm. It's cute, and charming, but underneath is mega asshole. I guess that means the whole thing is a charade.


LOL! jester Well, that certainly explains a lot.http://files.myopera.com/0x29a/pictures/P-McAsshole-002.jpg -

0x29a Saturday, January 14, 2012 9:36:56 PM

Originally posted by BrianFrances:

Some motorcar manufacturers do the same kind of thing,


Indeed. I remember under the hood of the '61 Chevy Apache pickup I had years ago. When you looked inside there was an air cleaner, generator, battery, engine, oil filter canister, and that's about it. Nowadays, things under the hoods of most cars are a catastrophic mess.

That also makes me think of the Microsoft Office "ribbon," or whatever that jive was called. Or Gnome 3.x. Or KDE 4.x.

Brian Francis PretoriusBrianFrances Saturday, January 14, 2012 10:03:47 PM

I gave up opening the hood of a car when I no longer recognised anything in there, that was about ten years ago. Now even the interiors are complicated, the gear change having been replaced with a flat round disc, so you rotate the disc while looking at the pop up screen to select an action. . . . I mean really !

0x29a Saturday, January 14, 2012 10:15:55 PM

Originally posted by BrianFrances:

the gear change having been replaced with a flat round disc, so you rotate the disc while looking at the pop up screen to select an action. . .


Good lord! What the hell kinda car is that?!? I remember the first time I saw a Toyota instrument cluster that had been moved to the center of the dashboard instead of directly in front of the driver behind the steering wheel. I can't remember what that car was, but it was the first to move the cluster. That was pretty odd. But a disc to shift gears? That's just a violation of everything I hold dear. Instead of, "bangin' gears" we'd be "spinnin' gears?"

Brian Francis PretoriusBrianFrances Saturday, January 14, 2012 10:21:16 PM

Jaguar

Harry Scrivenharrytheman Sunday, January 15, 2012 10:02:26 AM

I'm in favour of change…how else would we get confused by new machinery and pay experts to maintain it for us? bigsmile

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