2620 emails to download.
2214 in my Spam folder
406 in my Inbox
After going through my Inbox, of the 406 new emails, 78 remained, so 328 Spam emails got through my filter.
Within the Spam folder there were 2 false positives, right at the end of the list. I thought for a minute it would be 100% Spam but no such luck, looks like going through my Spam list is something I’m going to have to continue.
For the record, I use Norton 360.
I’m looking at my stats for February this year compared to February last year. It’s interesting to see that Firefox is slowly whittling away at the Microsoft Internet Explorer monopoly – Last year IE accounted for 81.81% of all browsers used by visitors to Selfcateringhols. This year that has fallen to 77.97%, with the primary gainer being Firefox (up to16.71% from 13.23% last year).
I believe that Firefox initially appealed to the more Internet savvy population, so either the general user is becoming more Internet savvy, or Firefox is becoming more mainstream.
Of IE versions 6 & 7 dominate, up to 99.57% from 98.65% last year. There has been a progression from version 6 to 7, with 7 now accounting for the majority of IE users at 55.62%.
It’s also interesting to note the appearance of mobile/entertainment browsing, with the iphone, ipod, Wii and playstation all making an appearance in 2008 when they did not register in 2007.
I’m expecting another round of Spam emails regarding your domain name being registered in Asia will be sent out around now – since my posting there has been a very regular pattern of people looking to see if there’s any information online about this: typically there is a Monday morning spike, with interest tailing off through the week. By the weekend interest is virtually nil. The pattern then repeats itself. It is not unlike the stats for selfcateringhols, (although visitors for selfcateringhols doesn’t fall quite so dramatically at the weekend), it just demonstrates what a business this is. Sadly their Spam must generate enough weekly interest for them to keep sending out another batch the following week.
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It’s that time again, Monday morning, when I have to wade my way through the weekend’s Spam. Pretty bad this week, with 3,000+ emails in my Spam box and a further 1,500 in my inbox (my Spam filter apparently decided enough was enough and took a break).
There were 4 false positives in my Spam box, so the filter identified 0.13% as Spam which it shouldn’t have.
I had an email from WAYNE (where are you now?) which I registered with when it first came out a while back to see what it was like. The email said I had a message from ‘Anna’. I checked out the URL to make sure it wasn’t a spoof and then tried it out. Apparently the link was no longer valid, but it did go to www.wayne.com. Are they sending out bogus ‘you’ve got a message’ emails to generate more visitors???
Here is the email:
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2851 Spam emails since Friday afternoon.*
4 false positives, so a 0.14% false positive rate. Given that we’ve invested a lot into ensuring that all emails and messages are responded to promptly, the false positive rate is sufficiently high that I’ll be going through my Spam folder for a while yet.
* 2851 was when I started at the top the list; by the time I’d got to the bottom this had increased to 2867
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ryanair site redesign problems?
RyanAir recently took their site down for maintenance. It is now back up and is showing taxes and charges more prominently alongside the price. When testing the site however I initially got ‘page unavailable’ when searching for flights. A refresh later and I got a page up, but no flights found. A change of dates and I got Http/1.1 Service Unavailable.
Finally after another refresh I get some results – when selecting a flight you are now shown a breakdown of the price, plus the taxes and fees. For the purposes of my testing, my outward bound flights came to ?242.16, the return ?276, so ?518.16 in total.
I was – for fun! – going to see what the final price would come out as as this price excludes fees for airport check-in/checked baggage/excess baggage/sports/musical/infant equipment. Unfortunately when proceeding I got:
An Error Has Occurred
I wasn’t able to test the results fully but feel confident that while this is a very small step in the right direction it still excludes a large number of ‘extras’ that are hard to avoid, making it a missed opportunity to put things right. Meanwhile, they need to get their site more stable asap.