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Beware Abusix

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I imagine most people are victimized by Abusix without even knowing it. Whoever you use for a hosting company makes the stupid decision to use Abusix instead of a good spam filter like SpamExperts and suddenly you can’t communicate with people. Thankfully, my host, GeekStorage, uses SpamExperts. Yes, I’ve written about hosting companies and GeekStorage in the past. It’s a topic that keeps coming up.

Gmail Never Gets Filtered

What stuns me about most anti-spam software is they never bulk filter out gmail. That certainly where the bulk of my spam comes from. You just have to sprinkle in a few unsecured .edu domains for seasoning.

The relentless spam today is claiming to be from American Express, but, it’s really vincent.

How do I know Gmail never gets filtered?

The email server used by the legal team handling my trademark made the mistake of using Abusix. Keep in mind we are talking about this trademark. Been using this firm for decades now. My trademark was coming up for renewal. That’s how we found this out. I couldn’t send to them and they couldn’t send to me, right when we are trying to dot the t’s and cross the i’s on the renewal.

My gmail account go through though.

There were a handful of other people whom I’ve done business with for years that had email servers which made the mistake of using Abusix. Suddenly we couldn’t communicate via anything by Gmail.

It’s as if Google made this product.

Abusix Worthless AI

I jumped through all the needless hoops. Got told all about AI and algorithms, suspicious farts left in elevators, and basically 32,767 ways of saying “We have to be right.” No, you’re not. I got both GeekStorage server IPs taken out of their database. Yes, me, I did that. See above about trademark renewal.

It happened again today!!!

Sorry Andy, but Google also coughs up your email address . . .

Andy has become famous. He’s won some awards for voice acting. To me, he’s the guy who narrated the audiobook format of Infinite Exposure. That was back in the day when Red Planet Auidiobooks existed. I wanted to ask him about a file for that book, but the reason doesn’t matter. Visit Kobo and you will clearly see him listed.

Guess where else you will see him listed?

Now that he is famous I probably cannot afford him but that doesn’t mean I cannot send him an email once every few decades now, does it? Abusix thinks it does.

Yeah, I had to use my gmail account.

Google has to be behind this software in some insidious plot to force everyone onto Gmail so they can invade our privacy and mine our identities even more. There is sure as Hell no “intelligence” in this AI.

Roland Hughes started his IT career in the early 1980s. He quickly became a consultant and president of Logikal Solutions, a software consulting firm specializing in OpenVMS application and C++/Qt touchscreen/embedded Linux development. Early in his career he became involved in what is now called cross platform development. Given the dearth of useful books on the subject he ventured into the world of professional author in 1995 writing the first of the "Zinc It!" book series for John Gordon Burke Publisher, Inc.

A decade later he released a massive (nearly 800 pages) tome "The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS Application Developer" which tried to encapsulate the essential skills gained over what was nearly a 20 year career at that point. From there "The Minimum You Need to Know" book series was born.

Three years later he wrote his first novel "Infinite Exposure" which got much notice from people involved in the banking and financial security worlds. Some of the attacks predicted in that book have since come to pass. While it was not originally intended to be a trilogy, it became the first book of "The Earth That Was" trilogy:
Infinite Exposure
Lesedi - The Greatest Lie Ever Told
John Smith - Last Known Survivor of the Microsoft Wars

When he is not consulting Roland Hughes posts about technology and sometimes politics on his blog. He also has regularly scheduled Sunday posts appearing on the Interesting Authors blog.

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