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Anybody else getting more YouTube spam lately?
I have noticed a few more trickling in lately – so decided to do something about it. If you go visit your My Account page and hunt for around 10 minutes you will find a link for E-mail Options. From there, you can set YouTube to “Don’t send any emails for the above events”.
Hit save, and you should be all fixed up. No offense lovemeChristy72, your just not my kind of girl though.
I don’t like having my stuff stolen or abused. Unlike most folks though that just roll over and take it – I like to do my best to fight back.
If nobody fights back against these guys, they win and we all have to pay the price for it. I recently found one web site that will go un-named (no reason to give these guys free press) stealing content from my podcast, WebHostingShow.com. Here is the un-edited version of his responses. I sent the first e-mail asking for the content to removed and for him to respond within five days or less.
Not totally out of the question – right? Here is his reply:
Hello Mr. Keller, we are not using site webhostingshow.com for these news, than using rss feeds from domaintools.com. And under every message there is your name and your email – notice to people that YOU have written those texts. So, please see with domaintools.com are using their rss feeds are legal or not.
Oh so they are saying it’s DomainTools.com that is stealing my content – not them. Hu? Yeah didn’t make much sense to me either – the DomainTools.com folks are a great team of people, not like this idiot who can’t even spell my name correctly. I replied trying to clarify, here is the next response:
Mr Keeler, we are using material that domaintools.com provides via rss feeds for free. So I do not see any copyright abuse. If you think this material is copyrighted, please contact domaintools.com first. If they remove your blogs from their site, they will be automatically removed from our site, too.
Oh so all content published via RSS feeds are free for the taking, happy I got that cleared up.. no wait, it is still my copyrighted material I did not give him permission to post. That is the fact plain and simple – so yet again I try to explain the situation and ask for some clarification.
Wish I could say this story had a happy ending, but afraid thus far it is not looking that way.
Well I spent Saturday morning making the big switch from Yahoo! Mail (who screwed me over royally with the ad-fest they started) to Gmail. I really had not used Gmail that much since the launch – so I was happy to see they have improved it greatly since then. My overall reaction over the move? I am happy thus far.
Step One – Getting Ready for the Move
First thing I did was move all my Yahoo! Mail message from my folder into my inbox. I deleted a lot of old crap I really didn’t need anymore. I’m not that much of a pack rat when it comes to e-mail so this might be easier for some than others.
Step Two – Setting Up Additional Accounts
Second thing I did was setup all my e-mail addresses up in Gmail so that I could start the switch. This could not be easier. I also set my old Yahoo address up to go there as well – so I wouldn’t miss out on a thing.
Step Three – Configure Gmail’s Settings
Third, I went through and configured the Gmail settings and imported my e-mail from Yahoo! to Gmail. This was easy enough, because it picked up on everything that was in my inbox at Yahoo! and brought it right in.
Step Four – Get Things Labeled, Forget the Folders
From there I setup my labels and got e-mails archived. That’s it! Now things are going smoothly and the one thing I have been most impressed by is the spam filtering that Gmail does. It might take a little training but in a whole it is leaps and bounds over what Yahoo! Mail provides.
This spam E-mail I just got was just too good not to share. Only thing edited out was the URL they were pushing me to. Brings new meaning to the old “dog eat dog world” saying hu?
Hello my friend!
I am ready to kill myself and eat my dog, if medicine prices here are bad.
Look, the site and call me 1-800 if its wrong..
My dog and I are still alive
Happy to hear they made it out of the E-mail alright. If he kills himself though, how will he eat his dog?
Yahoo is paying for the unlimited E-mail storage everybody is going to get with more ads. Paid Yahoo Mail users or not – we are all going to get this “new feature” called advertisements.
Want the good news? Yahoo is going to give us unlimited E-mail storage soon. The bad news? If you haven’t been seeing ads – you are about to get them back – even if you have been paying for your E-mail service! I have enjoyed the perks of having the “paid” version of Yahoo Mail since I am a AT&T DSL customer. When I moved over to DSL I signed up with SBC Yahoo! DSL. One of the perks I liked the most was that there were no ads on the E-mail application.
Here is a copy of the E-mail I got from Yahoo:
Dear AT&T Yahoo! Member:
AT&T and Yahoo! have a history of providing our members with award-winning, industry-leading Internet products and services at a great value.
As more members are using AT&T Yahoo! Mail to send and receive photos, videos, and music, we will begin offering unlimited email storage in May to both existing and new members. Your service will continue to include all the premium products you already enjoy including video, LAUNCHcast Plus, and an all-in-one security suite.
Additionally, within the next few weeks you will begin seeing graphical advertisements in your AT&T Yahoo! Mail service. These advertisements will be integrated into the AT&T Yahoo! Mail experience, and we hope you will find the advertisements useful. Advertising such as this allows us to continue delivering new and innovative elements to our service and helps us keep prices competitive, while we continue to provide the high level of service that you have come to know and trust.
We strive to provide you with the best online experience possible and to address all your needs on the Internet.
Sincerely,
AT&T Yahoo! Member Services
I love how they push the advertisements as an additional feature to look forward to. Shame on you Yahoo!
The Yahoo Mail team came out with some excellent tips for searching my E-mails in the new Yahoo Mail Beta that has been out for a while now. I really love the new Yahoo Mail, but there are a few things that I wish they would hurry up and finish or do.
1. I want a better RSS feed reader. The one included right now sucks. Give me something like Google Reader and I will switch in an instant. It would be nice to have my mail and RSS feeds all in one spot, but right now when it comes to RSS Google is just giving me a lot more.
2. Let’s hurry up and get Calendar and Notepad working. I never really used these features in the old Yahoo! Mail, so give me something that is worth using. If you do not, then at least give me the option of getting rid of the buttons. (That could also be said for the RSS reader)
3. Give me the option to always reply in plain text. I really don’t like having to switch back to plain text every time I reply to a message. There should be a setting in the options somewhere that says “only send E-mail with plain text”. Get that in there and I would be happy.
Have anything else that needs to be done that I might have missed?
I have had a lot of folks asking me about free Web hosting and free file hosting alternatives out there, and I have to say I have not played with many of them.
One of them that I do see used a lot is SendSpace. The interface is pretty straight forward if you have a file to send to somebody. One thing to remember though is you are limited to 300 MB. Just type in your name and E-mail address, and the name and E-mail address of your friend and hit send.
They gain points from me on making things simple, I just wish they gave a few more options for folks who just want to send a file quickly and do not want to sign up for a service.
As I move MitchKeeler.com to a new hosting account, my E-mail might be down for a little while. If you really need to get a hold of me for something though – please use mitch@lockergnome.com for the time being. Thanks!
Alright, I think I got mitch@mitchkeeler.com back up and running now.
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Mitch Keeler is nothing more than your average Joe trying to leave his mark on the world though both his professional work and his online projects, articles, podcasts and more.
