Do you sleepwalk Mr Euro? :-)

Mr Euro, if its in your outbox its probably been sent from there, as you suggest take it up with AOL but I doubt if they will do much. If its not in your inbox its spoofed, happens all the time, some ISPs will allow you to supress DSN messages which can be usefull if this is happeneing a lot, I donmt know if AOL let you do that but I doubt it as they are crap ;-)

Kayak, no I hardly sleep these days!

Spaceman, yes it is in my outbox not inbox, by inbox did you mean outbox?

Read this today, got me thinking! $24m for 9 years! Will be reduced to say 5 on appeal, of which he will serve 2.5. If I knew how I would give it a try!

US duo in first spam conviction


Jaynes sent more than 100,000 e-mails in a month
A brother and sister in the US have been convicted of sending hundreds of thousands of unsolicited e-mail messages to AOL subscribers.
It is the first criminal prosecution of internet spam distributors.

Jurors in Virginia recommended that the man, Jeremy Jaynes, serve nine years in prison and that his sister, Jessica DeGroot, be fined $7,500.

They were convicted under a state law that bars the sending of bulk e-mails using fake addresses.

'Snake oil salesman'

They will be formally sentenced next year. A third defendant, Richard Rutkowski, was acquitted.

Prosecutors said Jaynes was "a snake oil salesman in a new format", using the internet to peddle useless wares, news agency Associated Press reported.

A "Fed-Ex refund processor" was supposed to allow people to earn $75 an hour working from home. Another item on sale was an "internet history eraser".

His sister helped him process credit card payments.

Jaynes amassed a fortune of $24m from his sales, prosecutors said.

"He's been successful ripping people off all these years," AP quoted prosecutor Russell McGuire as saying.

Jaynes was also found guilty of breaking a state law which prohibits the sending of more than 100,000 e-mails in 30 days, Virginia State Attorney General Jerry Kilgore reportedly said.

Prosecutors had asked for 15 years in jail for Jaynes, and a jail term for his sister.

But Jaynes' lawyer David Oblon called the nine-year recommended term "outrageous" and said his client believed he was innocent.

He pointed out that all three of the accused lived in North Carolina and were unaware of the Virginia state law.

Spam messages are estimated to account for at least 60% of all e-mails sent.

Only other possibility is that your password has been cracked. I'm not an AOL person so don't know how you logon or whatever. If that is possible because you've used a "normal" word then try using passwords that include punctuation marks.

Apart from that I haven't a clue.

Mr E yes I meant outbox.

Kayak - thanks.

Can anyone suggest a good place to buy domain names and also host them? Are there any dangers/pitfalls I should be aware of?

Thanks.

PS - Found this place which seems very cheap, but I could being taken for a ride.

http://www.zyra.org.uk/123-reg.htm

Mr Euro - I use www.netsol.com - probably there are cheaper but it isn't expensive anywhere and they do an auto renew feature so you can't lapse by accident.

Thanks.When you have registered names can people trace the site to you? I mean joe bloggs not the police? I am also trying to learn about optimisation and everything that goes with websites! Any tips? anyone!?!>?

Mr E

Anyone can look up the Whois database and get the name and address of the sites owner. However, I believe that Network Solutions have an option to hide it. Some of the other providers will not.

Thanks, then I will probably give false information.

Agree with Kernow - I do all my domains through NetSol - they now have a service for everything. You can now also keep your registration details "ex-directory".

Mr.E - you're going into the realms of DNS servers etc etc - it's techy stuff, but once you've learnt it all you'll wish you did it all years ago.

I control all my domains,mailservers,websites completely online with no delay and no bods to talk to. It all happens in seconds. I use online services (USA based of course) to do it all and for peanut costs. All of this means I'm not locked to any ISP and can do what I want when I want to do it.

NetSol have "account" info and "domain registration" info. Account will have to be real because of credit card usage. There is also a legal requirement not to give false info on registrations, but I don't know who checks the millions of them every day.

BT the problem I found with NETSOL is I couldn't register .co.uk names, or at least not without messing around or talking to a live rep. I have been at this for a couple of days/nights and I am learning all the time but phew it's not as straight forward as one might think.

I haven't even got round to conditioning yet, only that one compnay wanted 2.2K for 5 sites. I think I might do it myself coupled with paying for some ad. space. On my list to do is call Bully to get some free AM advertising :-)

I am putting together complete buiness plans / operation bussiness in about 12 fields, not enough hours in the day!

I didn't bother with .co.uk - couldn't think of a good reason why. I stayed with .com for everything, and .net for some specialist stuff.

BT/anyone, how do you view condionting i.e being at the top of the list (I assume they do this by keywords but know nothing about it yet?) V's paying for advertising space i.e. Google sponsored links? What in your experience is the best approach?

Thanks.

Just spent an hour/two looking at google ad. programme, perhaps it's because I am tired and my brain/body are not quite where they should be, but it's as clear as mud (including wrong examples).

tried to open http://www.auction-world.tv
and just get a bland white screen,

when i try to openhttp://www.bid-up.tv

i get this ERROR

Server Error in '/' Application.
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Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Stack Trace:


[NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
bidup.usercontrols.bid_liveauctions.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) +60
System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +67
System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +35
System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +98
System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +98
System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain() +731




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Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:1.1.4322.573; ASP.NET Version:1.1.4322.573

do i need to change some settings,all my other web sites work ok,
seems strange they are both auction sites,

thanks

steve

scussy,
Re the first one, do you have ad blocking? I think thats the problem there?

The second one is a problme at their end, I dont think you can do anything other than wait until they fix it.