tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post2704368330988121691..comments2023-11-03T06:32:28.410-04:00Comments on Staring At Empty Pages: E-cardsBarry Leibahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14205294935881991457noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post-84412846918270385782007-09-26T08:56:00.000-04:002007-09-26T08:56:00.000-04:00Ridger, you're more savvy than most people are abo...Ridger, you're more savvy than most people are about the mouse-over thing. Most don't know that they can do that, and many who do would not notice the bogus URL. And a determined attacker could do something like registering the domain name "hallmark.com" with Cyrillic "a" characters, which would <I>look</I> just like the real thing.Barry Leibahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14205294935881991457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post-86964469954231295982007-09-25T21:02:00.000-04:002007-09-25T21:02:00.000-04:00My wife, who works for a major bank, routinely use...My wife, who works for a major bank, routinely used an e-card site from work to send greetings to casual friends and co-workers. She had used it successfully for a couple of years. Suddenly, one day, one of the obligatory pop-up ads that accompany such sites fooled her into clicking 'ok' and her computer immediately began downloading hundreds of spyware/adware/malware utilities. Realising what she had done, she called IT right away, who told her to drop everything and imediately unplug the computer. No shut down - no nothing - just yank the fricking plug out of the wall. RIGHT NOW!!!<BR/><BR/>She was warned that she could have lost her job for the security breach. She doesn't use e-card sites anymore.Call me Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17704646008578216859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post-17897817370280078332007-09-25T19:05:00.000-04:002007-09-25T19:05:00.000-04:00Well, I'll remember never to send you a card. I do...Well, I'll remember never to send you a card. I do send them - and I do write notes. I usually send both ecards and paper ones, and I write notes on both.<BR/><BR/>I don't open ecards from 'a friend' because the real sites tell you who sent it. Also, all you have to do is look at the URL when you mouse over.The Ridger, FCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01538111197270563075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post-18283397280230816842007-09-25T16:48:00.000-04:002007-09-25T16:48:00.000-04:00I am totally sending you a Hoops & YoYo card right...I am totally sending you a Hoops & YoYo card right this minute.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post-23296606420412307562007-09-25T15:58:00.000-04:002007-09-25T15:58:00.000-04:00Hmmm... I don't like the "traditional" greeting eC...Hmmm... I don't like the "traditional" greeting eCards either, that's why I usually send Apple's eCards.<BR/><BR/>You choose a picture (yours if you have an .Mac account) and put your personal message in it...<BR/><BR/>The only thing that bothers me is the <I>Greetings from Cupertino</I> "post stamp"...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post-77836671895192566762007-09-25T14:35:00.000-04:002007-09-25T14:35:00.000-04:00I don't open e-cards and I don't enjoy hallmark ho...I don't open e-cards and I don't enjoy hallmark holidays. I wish Mother's Day, Father's Day, etc., would just disappear. I also don't give cards, but I have children, so they make cards. They are usually personal and three-dimensional. M is fond of making pop-ups.<BR/><BR/>I recently received an e-card spam different from yours. It wasn't an e-card business I had heard of (granted, that isn't many), and it said the card was from a "friend," or something general like that. "A friend has sent you an e-card."<BR/><BR/>I don't know that I've ever read anything quite as pathetic as, "it says everything I'm thinking." Advertising companies should apparently just follow that guy around. Wow.Maggiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16681883169121834569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post-10068662750274382672007-09-25T11:16:00.000-04:002007-09-25T11:16:00.000-04:00I send and receive e-cards on occasion, and the le...I send and receive e-cards on occasion, and the legitimate ones always have some way of telling you who it was who sent it. That makes it pretty easy to distinguish what's spam. (And the good sites allow more than ample room for adding a nice personal note, which I always do.)D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14317856415005503598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post-28821128340604433252007-09-25T11:09:00.000-04:002007-09-25T11:09:00.000-04:00I feel exactly the same way about greeting cards. ...I feel exactly the same way about greeting cards. My family is slowly beginning to learn that I really don't care to give them, preferring to make my own (which tend to be much more applicable to the recipient).<BR/><BR/>I've found that, especially lately, most greeting and e-cards just suck. They're not clever, they're not funny, and they're so broadly targeted that there's no personality to them. Every once in a while I find a pretty good one, but it's pretty rare.<BR/><BR/>This past Sunday was my grandmother's birthday. I could have sent her an e-card, but instead, I wrote a poem consisting of four lines that said exactly how I felt, and which applied directly to our situation.Thomas J. Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04969763988007667949noreply@blogger.com