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my simple two computer network stopped working and I don't know why, do you?

Grod — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:41:58 -0800

I use to have a home network and now I don't. Why? Google turns up many similar problems and a few answers but no solution that works for me. Two computers running windows XP pro connect to the internet through a residential gateway [computers ----> workgroup switch ----> residential gateway ----> dsl ---> world]. I put both computers in the same work group, enabled simple file sharing, made 'my documents' on one shared and could read/write from the other. Then one day I couldn't and nothing I've done, re-sharing the directory, running the network wizard and using a different work group name, enabling/disabling the firewall, nothing has restored the ease of access, or any access, instead I'm told "\\computerName-35cbba is not accessible. You might not have permission to use the network resource. Contact the administrator of the server to find out if you access permissions. Access is denied." To which I say arrrrgh. Anyone know what's happening here, and why, and how to fix it? Thanks.

Junk mail trader trying to sell a sucker a style.

uaudio — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:00:03 -0800

Every time I send an email from my cox.net account to my mom's MSN mail account, I get an autoreply from MSN saying there are complaints about my IP address sending junk mail. Huh? Here is what I get:

Please reply to Postmaster@cox.net
if you feel this message to be in error.
Reporting-MTA: dns; fed1rmmtao102.cox.net
Arrival-Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 22:07:09 -0400
Received-From-MTA: dns; fed1rmimpo02.cox.net (70.169.32.72)

Final-Recipient: RFC822; xxxxxx@msn.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Remote-MTA: dns; mx1.hotmail.com (65.54.245.8)
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 Mail rejected by Windows Live Hotmail for policy reasons. A block has been placed against your IP address because we have received complaints concerning mail coming from that IP address. We recommend enrolling in our Junk E-Mail Reporting Program (JMRP), a free program intended to help senders remove unwanted recipients from their e-mail lists. For enrollment instructions, please refer to: http://postmaster.live.com/Services.aspx#JMRPP. For additional information about Microsoft's technical guidelines, please refer to: http://postmaster.live.com/Guidelines.aspx

Can someone explain what this all means and how I can convince Microsoft I just want to send my mom some pictures of her two year old grandson - unless its him spamming...

For what its worth, I have a MacBook Pro and a Airport Extreme network with WAP security. And of course, the humor of getting this message when I myself receive about 10 junk emails a day from Hotmail addresses is not lost on me.

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jfuller — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 09:38:46 -0800

Increasingly many e-commerce sites and ebay vendors seem to be using paypal as the outfit that also handles their ordinary credit-card (i.e. non-paypal-account) purchases. This doesn't work, and blows the transaction. How can I evade this yet-another-paypal-gotcha? The circumstances under which it doesn't work: I have exactly one piece of plastic, a debit card. It's the card I used to open my paypal account. Now when I try to purchase something by debit card from a site using paypal as their transaction service provider, paypal always tells me "that card number is registered to a paypal account. Enter a different card number." In short, if paypal is handling the site's credit/debit card transactions, it's only going to let me do the transaction as a paypal payment. And since I don't keep any significant money in my paypal account, that involves doing a money transfer into the paypal account and waiting three days while this happens, which adds inconvenience to the annoyance of being strong-armed by paypal in the first place. I won't cooperate, and this has blown several purchases from several different vendors.

Is there a magic button I'm missing somewhere here? Some way to tell paypal "Dammit I DON'T WANT to pay using paypal, I want to pay with my debit card, you're apparently taking a fee from the vendor to provide debit/credit card servicing, do your bloody job already"?