ansemond.com

I spend a lot of time deleting bot-messages on this blog and on my forum. I didn’t expect quite this much online-graffiti. At least this is stuff I could fix / automate away, if I got the time.

Now someone is sending spam to people with forged ansemond.com addresses. I only know because I’m receiving bounced emails I never sent… I’ve emailed the owner of the domain which is sending them, but I’m not holding my breath.

So if you get an email that is apparently from me but that is advertising something unrelated to Find It! Keep It!… please understand that I didn’t send it.

The beta has been out two days.

Spam Filters

Again it seems some spam filters are preventing people from receiving the download information… No one has been turned away from this beta, so if you requested it, please tell your spam filter that mail from ansemond.com is not spam. If you email me again, I’ll be happy to send you the information a second time.

Bugs

• Input Managers, aka Plugins: Two crashes on launch were due to third party plugins
• Cocoa: One bug seems to be that Cocoa gives me the wrong information (weird!)
• Flash plugins disabled: I believe this is due to a misconfigured computer, but I need to dig into it further.
• Rosetta: One report of Rosetta crashing on an Intel Mac, and thereafter Find It! Keep It! would not start again. To deal with this case I made a small program for Intel Mac owners that restarts Rosetta before starting Find It! Keep It!

Overall observations

Because people who are willing to run betas are people who try new things, they run plugins I’ve never even heard of, and have interestingly configured computers. Beta testing is trial by fire for the software being tested!

People downloading the tool use a wide spread of browsers: 60% use Safari, 21% use Firefox (1.5 & 2.0), followed by OmniWeb, Camino, Opera and something called iGetter

A few people seem to be hoping that it will work on 10.3.x… I’m afraid it won’t.

Thanks to Ben Stanfield of MacSlash, many beta testers have signed up to Find It! Keep It!. Now I just need to get the last known bugs fixed.

Spam is one of the most irritating inventions ever. Currently I get 60 a day! Google Mail is really good at finding them. Unfortunately, other mail services aren’t, so that some of my messages to people signing up are rejected… Yet another way in which spam has a real detrimental effect!

If you didn’t get a message from me, and did sign up yesterday or earlier, please search your spam tray for “Ansemond” or set your spam filters to accept messages from ansemond.com You can check your status in the mailing lists. If you signed up for a beta, you should be signed up for the Beta newsletter.