Foreword asks (again)
Two quick questions, please:
1. How does everyone feel about caps in web addresses? I went a different route (styled the text differently) to acommodate a client’s request to make the web address “stand out more,” rather than the caps (www.WebAddressHere.com). Feel pretty strongly about it, too, but don’t want to be overly anal about it. What have you done when setting covers and interiors?
2. I’ve been getting spammed this week on a massive scale — thousands and thousands of emails directed at least three of the active ospreydesign.com email addresses. If you’ve sent an email our way this week and you haven’t heard back, please accept my apologies and resend when you have a moment.
Part of the problem is a specific type of attachment that makes Entourage — or, as I’ve been calling it these past few days, Enter Rage — crash, often requiring a time-consuming database rebuild. Considering switching to Thunderbird, but I like the integrated calendar/notification part of Entourage. I’m not going to buy the new version of Office or Entourage, and don’t like how Mail’s output looks on PCs or its speed. Other than those, can anyone recommend a good Mac email client? Or a calendar client with notifications more robust than iCal?
Thank you.
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Posted by Giles, Friday, February 3, 2006, at 3:29 PM.
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Comments:
Ever seen Jeopardy on Saturday Night Live when Sean Connery says “Anal Bum Cover” instead of “An Album Cover?” I read things like that when URLs are all lower-case. I definitely like initial caps on words in a URL.
Re. the spam: I use Blogger, and haven’t had any problems w/ spammers since I turned on the word verification. Is that an option for you?
Joseph, great point on the URLs. I hadn’t really though about it that way. I usually prefer lowercase, though, because it can be a bit jarring for me to read caps with no spaces, as opposed to just a string of lowercase type.
As for e-mail clients: I tried Thunderbird for a while, and dug it. Except for its über blunder of not using Address Book app data, like most other OSX apps. But if you use Entourage, that might not be an issue for you?
Correct, Pablo, I don’t use Address Book, so not an issue. Think that’s definitely on the list for the weekend. Thanks.
Joseph, want to stick with MT for now — just have to find the time to put together the new site with the updated 3.0 anti-spam code. Can’t do that until the new logo’s in place, and that is not going quickly.
Why is it your own stuff is always the hardest?
Just noticed and fixed the stupid typos. Sorry.
I’ve been fairly happy with Entourage, though I’ve made a point to archive all messages recently before hitting the 2GB mark. (Having read other users’ horror stories of corrupt databases, I want to be cautious.) What kind of attachment is it that makes Entourage crash? And are you using Entourage X?
All lowercase works for me and my clients. Either way, it’s all the same and will point to the same IP address.