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[Ian Norman]

Dear Dave,

I have to agree, I'm in the minority.

As for spam, I get very little, maybe 5 a week.

I use Postfix and Dovecote (No spam filter) on a rented cloud server 
(£12 per year), the domain name costs about the same.

So I'm definitely in the minority.


Best regards

Ian Norman

Email: mailto:ian.norman at armoor.co.uk
Telephone: 01643 888181

On 09/09/2023 13:02, Dave Plowman via Tech1 wrote:
> You don't get any spam at all via email?
> 
> However, if you log on to FB and click on the group you've joined and 
> want to read, you don't seem to get any ads on that.
> 
> I like email - but unlike all the other email groups that were once 
> around, this one has always been flaky- at least here.  All of those 
> groups and similar forums are now all either closed or very low traffic. 
> Fact of life, sadly. Things like FB are simply more convenient for the 
> majority.
> 
> 
> On 09/09/2023 12:51, Ian Norman via Tech1 wrote:
>> Dear Dave,
>>
>> True, but my email client doesn't badger me with adverts.
>>
>> To set-up a Facebook account you first need an email account.  You 
>> don't need a Facebook account to create an email account.
>>
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Ian Norman
>>
>> Email: mailto:ian.norman at armoor.co.uk
>> Telephone: 01643 888181
>>
>> On 09/09/2023 11:24, Dave Plowman via Tech1 wrote:
>>> If emails merely arrive in your inbox, you have the email client set 
>>> to do this. Remember passwords, etc. You can do pretty well the same 
>>> with FaceBook. And both require an internet connection of some sort.
>>>
>>> On 09/09/2023 08:34, Ian Norman via Tech1 wrote:
>>>> Dear Peter,
>>>>
>>>> I agree.
>>>>
>>>> I run my own mail server and had to register my server with GMail in 
>>>> order to send emails to GMail accounts.
>>>>
>>>> Many email providers are restricting the servers they allow to send 
>>>> to them.
>>>>
>>>> I much prefer the email system we use at Tech-Ops, messages simply 
>>>> arrive in my inbox.
>>>>
>>>> I don't (and won't) use Facebook.  If I did, I'd have to logon each 
>>>> time to see if there were any messages. (I don't use a smartphone as 
>>>> no signal in the middle of Exmoor).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best regards
>>>>
>>>> Ian Norman
>>>>
>>>> Email: mailto:ian.norman at armoor.co.uk
>>>> Telephone: 01643 888181
>>>>
>>>> On 05/09/2023 11:05, Peter Fox via Tech1 wrote:
>>>>> Gmail has become very picky about the transmitting email service 
>>>>> provider. My 34SP hosted emails get rejected by gmail, but not 
>>>>> Plusnet /BT for example. Tech ops email provider may not be up to 
>>>>> scratch? There will be bounces but no-one to monitor them.
>>>>>
>>>>> Peter Fox
>>>>>
>>>>> On 4 Sep 2023, at 21:19, Dave Plowman via Tech1 
>>>>> <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> All very odd. I am no longer seeing any mails from tech ops on 
>>>>> this Gmail account I set up specially for it. Or on my original 
>>>>> account on Thunderbird. But Windows Mail has just posted this via 
>>>>> that original account.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sent from Mail for Windows
>>>>>
>>>>> From: David Newbitt via Tech1
>>>>> Sent: 03 September 2023 10:39
>>>>> To: Graeme Wall; Janis Goldring
>>>>> Cc: Tech ops; dnewbitt at fireflyuk.net
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Tech1] The Tech1 email Archives
>>>>>
>>>>> This post of yours showed up here Graeme. Nil desperandum!
>>>>>
>>>>> Dave Newbitt.
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Graeme Wall via Tech1
>>>>> Sent: Friday, September 1, 2023 8:18 AM
>>>>> To: Janis Goldring
>>>>> Cc: Tech ops
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Tech1] The Tech1 email Archives
>>>>>
>>>>> I’m getting them but my replies don’t seem to be showing up.
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 30 Aug 2023, at 07:51, Janis Goldring via Tech1 
>>>>>> <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We are also getting the emails and do not mind sharing our address  -
>>>>>> Janis and Peter Goldring.
>>>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 27 Aug 2023, at 07:52, techtone via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks to Alec for clarifying the present status of our email 
>>>>>>> list with
>>>>>>> admin overseen by Alan Taylor. I shall obviously hold fire in the
>>>>>>> meantime and wait to hear from Alan/Alec/Paul.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks to you for your hard work on behalf of the tech-ops 
>>>>>>> community.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> TeaTeaFN - Tony
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sent with Proton Mail secure email.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ------- Original Message -------
>>>>>>> On Friday, August 25th, 2023 at 13:52, Alec Bray 
>>>>>>> <alec.bray.2 at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi Tony,
>>>>>>>> You wrote:
>>>>>>>> "...I've been in touch with a good friend of mine who runs his own
>>>>>>>> computer company, and asked him for
>>>>>>>> ideas about 'repairing' the holes which have occurred in the 
>>>>>>>> list. He's
>>>>>>>> looked at the website and
>>>>>>>> confirmed that it's paid for until 2029, but would like more 
>>>>>>>> info on the
>>>>>>>> email side of things.
>>>>>>>> With your permission, I will pass on email addresses that I have 
>>>>>>>> from
>>>>>>>> past emails so's he can
>>>>>>>> hopefully unravel the system and come up with a solution to 
>>>>>>>> being able
>>>>>>>> to administer it..."
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> There is NO problem with the Tech Ops web site - you may have 
>>>>>>>> noticed
>>>>>>>> that there have been some new posts
>>>>>>>> there - and I know, 'cos Bernie told me - that there is provis
>>>>>
>>>>
>>