On Sat, 2013-01-05 at 14:51 -0500, Mark LaPierre wrote: > Wow Tim, You're still running FC9 on an internet connected device? I > can understand why you don't accept email. That's not the reason... ;-) That's an anti-spam technique. From over a decade of participating in public forums, on various transports, I know that any published email address that can receive mail receives a deluge of spam. By auto-deleting *ALL* mail on that address, but reading mail received at another, kept private, address. I don't have to deal with the spam. I don't have to use a spam filter, which frequently gets it wrong (marking ham as spam, or spam as ham), meaning that you either lose mail, or have to check the spam mailbox so much that there's no point using spam filtering. I don't look at the mailbox for the public address, I just have a filter delete all mail going into it, unless it contains a certain magic word. I only look at the unpublished address, which receive no spam, at all. As far as Fedora 9 goes, it's the last release of Fedora that I actually like, *and* runs well on this hardware (a laptop, and on low spec desktop computer). Fedora 11 is the last version that I've tried on the laptop that runs well, but I don't really like it. And it's a major pain to update an OS and keep data (backups, restores, fiddly installs trying not to delete data, or the disastrously risky and messy to clean-up afterwards "upgrade over the top"). On this laptop, Fedora 9 works how I want it to, and so does the software I'm using with it. There really is no need to change it, until web browser incompatibilities become too extreme. It's about the only thing that really forces obsolescence, the Fedora 9 software I'm using seems to be fairly stable and bug free, as far as any software goes. On other computers, that I don't normally post on, I'm using newer releases. You'll occasionally see a post from Fedora 17, from me. And, more rarely, Ubuntu. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
