Online Pet Peeves

• Spam...
• Web sites that only work in Internet Explorer - the Netscape browser is clearly more secure so get with the program folks!
• Web sites that ask you to register in order to access their online information (forget it)
• Home pages without any actual text (and take 3 minutes to load at dialup speed)
• Product prices that don't mention which country's "dollars" are listed. Not everyone is an American folks!
• Spam...
• U.S. sites that ship to Canada by courier - causing custom brokerage fees at the border which can exceed the cost of the order. Ouch! Offer postal service delivery and I'll consider ordering your products.
• Email scams, chain letters, forwarded jokes
• Fake mailing lists that CC dozens of people (instead of using BCC) - and feel sorry for the person who clicks "reply all" by mistake!
• Email sent in HTML format (by default in dear old Micro$oft mail software). For heaven sake, why would I even try to read magenta Arial 6pt font!
• Email signature files that are longer than the message.
• Web sites that set a fixed font SIZE. If you MUST change the size, at least use "relative" sizes so a half-blind reader can enlarge it.
• Spam... I use agressive mail server-side filters that tag and delete mail (SpamAssassin & SpamFilter), green lists for friends and clients, then I scan and delete manually using an IMAP server before downloading the remainder using a POP server. As it's being downloaded, Norton Antivirus scans and removes viruses automatically. On Web sites, I use mail forms that hide my address and "mung" my visible email address in "mailto" links. When filling in Web forms, I use a separate email account for that purpose.