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Web hosting companies are complaining that large numbers of genuine e-mails sent to thousands of small firms are being deleted without trace by an overzealous YahooXtra spam filter. The issue is affecting businesses that have not opted to set up an e-mail account for their website and have instead arranged for their e-mail to be forwarded to a Yahoo- Xtra address. Telecom outsourced its e-mail service to YahooXtra in August. Telecom spokesman Nick Brown denies there are technical problems with the service, and blames web-hosting companies for forwarding mail without filtering it first for spam. Simon McBeth, a spokesman for Domainz, one of the country's largest web hosters, says about 2000 of its customers may have been affected. But he says that because e-mail is being wiped completely, rather than sent to junk mail boxes or bounced back to senders, many businesses may not even know their mail is not being delivered.
Software Watchdogs Target Small Businesses
The Business Software Alliance is predominantly targeting small businesses who cannot afford to fend off enforcement actions, according to an Associated Press analysis. BSA, an organization backed by industry heavyweights such as Microsoft, Symantec and Adobe, collected more than $13 million last year in software licensing settlements. AP found that 90 percent of those settlements came from small businesses. BSA says it makes examples out of small businesses since it has a deterrent effect for all companies. Critics say the efforts are hollow since software piracy rates have remained relatively constant for years. Read the full story at Yahoo: http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071125/software_watchdog.html .
Briefly in Tompkins
The Tompkins County League of Women Voters will meet at 7 p.m. today in the Beverly Livesay Room at the Human Services Building on Seneca Street to discuss affordable housing in Tompkins County. There will be a panel discussion with John Spence from Better Housing, John Ward from the Red Cross program for the homeless, Martha Robertson from the Country Legislature, and Paul Mazzarella of Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services. The meeting is open to the public. Senior citizens' dinner is today .
Every School Every Thursday -- Urbandale
Join Urbandale Academic Boosters, or UAB, at 7 p.m. Dec. 11 in the Urbandale Middle School media center to meet and visit with Maura Flaschner of Iowa State University. Flaschner is the assistant director of the office of admissions, and director of precollegiate programs for Talented and Gifted. We look forward to hearing about many wonderful opportunities from the OppTAG programs available to high-ability students from elementary, middle and high schools around Iowa. Meeting details and a link to the OppTAG Web site may be found at the UAB site listed below. The meeting is free, but we would welcome e-mails to coachtmeyer@mchsi.com in advance to help plan handout and seating needs.
The UAB meeting on Tuesday has been cancelled to free up time so that participants may instead attend an important meeting - the TAG program review committee meeting on Nov.
Risky crackers still rampant
DESPITE the intensified campaign to regulate the manufacture of firecrackers in barangay Babag, Lapu-Lapu City, many residents still risk their lives by �secretly� making firecrackers inside their homes, a consultant of the Lapu-Lapu City government on firecrackers yesterday said. Of the 6,000 residents in barangay Babag, 80 percent are engaged in the manufacture of firecrackers. Only three are licensed, William Pongasi told Cebu Daily News. Pongasi, who owns JT Fireworks, said that majority of the residents in the barangay operate without licenses and permits. Many also work inside their houses or in places which are not suitable, posing risks to public safety, Pongasi added. �We, who are licensed, are not bothered by the competition.
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