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User Name Peter at Gemini
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So much time, so little progress
According to the developer's own words--or lack thereof--the frequent OutOf Bounds Exception/quits and stalling have not been solved. I don't have my money back yet, either--about 3 months now. See my previous review and comments. Avoid this app like the plague. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, June 29 2005 @ 10:49 AM PDT
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Mac OS 8-9 users, avoid this Mickey-Mouse bugfest like the plague. See my earlier review and subsequent comments for details. I'm just chiming in here to let folks know that in addition to calling me names for pointing out the bugs, and lying to me about being the only one with the problems, Mr Mouse Hendrickson has still not returned my "19 bucks" despite his 30-day guarantee. It's about 2.5 months now. He may be just trying to "punish" me for my feedback during use and after, and for refusing to knuckle under to his unprofessional BS. Also possible is that dishonesty runs deep at HS. In any case, just one more reason to avoid this pain-in-the-butt Mickeyware. [alert admin]
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Saturday, June 18 2005 @ 10:18 AM PDT
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This comment by Mr Mouse exemplifies his feeble attempt to avoid responsibility. I've already explained why it was impossible to grant his request for the mail fiile that would make SpamX fail: once it was relaunched after a quit, it would process the mail file it failed on without any trouble. However, 2 or 3 mails later, it would fail on another one. He just doesn''t get this, or his own tautologicality. However, I did send a batch of files to him, and explained in detail how the app handled them, which ones it failed on and then came back and finished, and so forth. I even sent a corresponding section of the log file, which, one might reasonably suppose, could have revealing data in it for the programmer. This, apparently, is obnoxious to him, because he can't stand the truth that the app sucks. Look, his earlier comments on VT admitted the app has the problem, and says "a handful" of users. So he lied outright to me that I was the only one with the problem--so this is a hand-something, all right. SO, my comment remains the same: SYS 8-9 users avoid this birth defect until you see the words "stalling and OutOfBounds exception solved." PS-- Mr Mouse has not even refunded my money yet--nearing a month now. That's OK, though. The "19 bucks" is worth it to keep sticking it to this adolescent pimple, which I will do until I get the dough. [alert admin]
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Sunday, May 29 2005 @ 03:45 PM PDT
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Folks, if you're using OS 9 or less, steer clear of this birth defect until you see the words, "Stalling and OutOfBounds exception solved." See my earlier review. Below is one email exchange between me and Mr. Hendrickson, which came after I tried an update he suggested. It demonstrates that the more you try to help, and get help, by describing the problem in detail the more petulant and defensive he gets. He also refuses to answer straightforward questions, apparently feeling that "19 bucks" for this Mickey Mouse job doesn't earn anyone that consideration. First my email, then his response. Jeff Hendrickson, Sat, May 7, 2005, 8:56 PM Please take the time to read this carefully. If you see any of these (?) after a sentence, please take the trouble to answer specifically. The app seems to be stalling more and quitting less. However, it still requires considerable nursing to get the job done. I ran a batch of 372 spams. In that span, it quit 15 times and stalled 13 times. Previously, the quits occurred entirely during the process of adding the DNS to the honeypot. Now, however, quits occur on two other phases: Looking up abuse info, and No cc list entry. Also, there were two quits with addresses in the abuse address window--a new wrinkle. However, there are now more emails being processed and reports being sent between quits. I'm also now seeing more spam responses than before. What is an OutOfBounds exception? Does SpamX do anything with report responses other than delete them? The stalls occur mostly on Evaluating RIR answer, with most of those saying (Korea) after. Stalls also occur on Error do next RIR lookup, Error socket-3168, and Looking up abuse info. I consider it a stall if it does nothing for 2 minutes. It will hesitate for shorter periods, like 30 seconds, and then resume operation, typically in the "resolving" process. One VERY ANNOYING thing it does following restart after a quit is renumber all files in the message folder. I see no value in this--is it necessary? One very time-consuming aspect is the need to individually select and classify emails in the filter. Why is there no Shift-click (group select) function? It has sent now about 5500 reports, according to itself, yet the rate of incoming spam does not seem to have slowed at all. In fact, it seems like more is coming. For example, I cleared my box late Sat afternoon, and by Sunday morning at 10:30 I had 450 spams in there. IS there a chance that spammers are able to identify viable email addresses based on the reports being sent, then "duck" out of the way and flame SpamX users? I'm still getting spam with the same subject lines I did when I began using the app on April 14. The bottom line: the amount of nursing required is still too great UNLESS it reduces spam to a trickle. Thus far, that has not occurred. I'm giving it every benefit of the doubt, but am still leaning toward a refund because I cannot afford the time this takes. It's quicker for me just to delete the spams from my server with Mail Siphon. We will see what happens after I run these 450 recent spams. If there's no improvement after that, I'll have to ask again for the refund. Mr. SpamX's reply next day: Peter, I am totally dumbfounded at the level of support that you are expecting for a piece of software that costs 19 bucks, where you are the only person experiencing problems. I've deleted your email address from the registration database, and I'm going to let you go bother someone else. I process refunds every two weeks or so. Please do not reply to this, if I never hear from you again it will be too soon. ********* Sorry, Jeff--I'm guessing this is too soon? Still looking forward to my refund. I know a smart programmer like you can handle a PayPal transfer. [alert admin]
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Friday, May 20 2005 @ 11:31 AM PDT
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Right Idea, Mickey Mouse Execution 
Automated spam reporting is a great idea. But this app was a major nuisance for me. I'm running a G3 beige minitower with sys 9.2.2. I get 800 or more spams/day, so was thrilled to see SpamX available--until I ran it. First, the word 'minimalist' describes the Instructions that come with it, although the app isn't complex. But as it processes emails a running status is provided in the window, using terms the lay user has no clue about without explanation. I opted to use the "email filter" which puts a list of emails on the server in a window, and, based on a database, proceeds to categorize them four ways, two of which are "spam" and "email." With a few hundred emails, this can take 10 minutes. The user must then "adjust" the categories by hilighting an email and clicking a button, or checking a box (for spam). But no Shift-click (group select) is provided, so one has to do them one by one--and don't try this while SpamX is doing it, or it'll stall (a favorite behavior overall), and you have to start all over again. There is a "Done" button, which brings you back to square one, but no stop, or pause and continue. So once the procedure begins, break out a snack and WAIT. Once this laborious procedure is done, the real fun begins. SpamX downloads the spams and creates text files in a numbered list it uses to send reports. This is where the thing was a real mess. As it ran these files, the app would frequently report an "OutOfBounds exception" and quit (I still don't know what that is, because Hendrickson (aka Mickey Mouse) refused to answer that question, which I asked 4 times). So it had to be restarted--hundreds of times a day for me. Can you say babysit? It also stalls during the processing. Funny thing is, the file it craps out on is processed without incident on restart. In spite of my telling Mickey this twice, he kept asking me to send the file it failed on to test! Our exchanges felt like no one was listening on the other end. Thus, the app that's supposed to save time cost me much more time to nurse along than just deleting spam from the server with Mail Siphon II (a good app, by the way). I was told I'm the only person in the Universe with this problem, so it had to be my system and not Mickey's app. I have to take this on faith, of course--which you wouldn't mind if Hendrickson would offer any suggestion of what the problem might be. The only suggestion he came up with was "flaky connection." Having NO other symptoms of that, I ran my diagnostics and restarted with minimal extensions. Nada. Quitsville all day long. I could imagine calling my ISP and saying, hey, I've got Mickey Mouse's app here keeps quitting on me and he says it's a flaky connection--wanna fix that please? During the course of my emailing for help, Hendrickson failed to answer the most direct questions, including any suggestion, even an illogical one, of where to look for a conflict. I spent a lot of time describing the behavior in detail, only to be told I was crazy essentially, and what do I expect for help for a program "that costs 19 bucks?" Do I want him to come out personally and paint my house? I was asked. Well, it's 20 bucks, so one can see that even simple arithmetic escapes this programmer. And one funny part is, his own app repeatedly categorized his moronic "support" emails back to me as spam, even after I re-classified them. So, that really says it. And I've got far more complex programs on my system that run essentially glitch-free. Yet, for some reason, ONLY my computer can't run SpamX. Sounds like BS to me, boys and girls. This is the good part--Hendrickson put up a new version and says it's got every exception handler he can muster. Well, the behavior of the app did noticeably change and slightly improve, but not nearly enough--UNLESS it would have, as promised, dramatically reduce spam. But it did not in the 22 days I've run it--not one iota, after supposedly 5500 spam reports. But the fact that the ways it quit and stalled did change, said to me it wasn't my system. Mickey also never asked me for a sys config, as many quality tech guys have in the past, as if that could make no difference. Then to add final insult to injury, my detailed report on the newest iteration was met with indignance and a cancellation of my registration--without refunding my money, which I have to wait up to two weeks for. How's that for puerile petulance? Hey Mickey--I'd spend 3 times 19 bucks for your dogshoot program if it would run right. I notice you've got a whole 3 other feedbacks on VT at this writing--glowing ones. Friends of yours, no doubt? How does this download stat (1271 total downloads, all versions) square with the '"thousands" of satisfied users I was told about. I'll tell you what--this whole experience felt like a beta test of an by a neophyte programmer with a pissy attitude. [alert admin]
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Sunday, May 08 2005 @ 03:59 PM PDT
TypeIndexer 2.1 (Mac OS 9)
for years on several machines and versions of MacOS. Currently running a beige G3 MiniT with OS 9.1. TI does exactly what is claimed for it, and runs fast and flawlessly. I've used its PostScript files to make PDFs (using Distiller) of all my fonts in the various styles, such as Sans, Serif, Script, etc., so I can easily pick the one(s) I want when needed. Clean, fast, excellent utility. a [alert admin]
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NaveeDIP, why would I go and vent my anger in a place other than where I was disrespected, lied to, and ripped off by your buddy, Mickey Mouse Hendrickson? But you should realize, DIP, that the more you protest and vainly command me to stop my comments, the more encouragement and opportunity you provide. This demonstrates your ignorance. But your desire to flap your gums on Mickey's behalf is interesting. Does he pay you? Wait! I…
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Tuesday, July 12 2005 @ 11:36 AM PDT
Hmmm, let's see: "..purile comments.." How fitting that Mickey Mouse Hendrickson should be defended by someone who misspells simple words, creates poor sentences, and who purports to know my age. Just so it's clear, I take the time to comment, because if only one individual takes the time to read my detailed review and is spared the agony I experienced with this piece of junk software and Mickey's abject denial and lies, it's worth it. Also,…
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Tuesday, July 12 2005 @ 11:15 AM PDT
RE: wrap more tinfoil around your head...
So, here's the other Henrickson groupie, who also submitted a rave review. Did he give you MY "19 bucks" to speak, little doggie? You know it IS funny--I shouldn't have to say anything--a lousy 1544 total downloads of this piece of junk over a year and a half speaks volumes--and Mickey M. Hendrickson told me he had "thousands" of satisfied users, while I was the lone complainer. He, like you, lives in his little fantasy, and…
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Wednesday, June 29 2005 @ 10:27 AM PDT
Like your recent review on 4.2.3, your comment sounds like you're a Hendrickson groupie or you're being payed to cover his unprofessional butt. No, he didn't sleep with my wife, but if he did, she'd be saying, why do you stall and quit every couple of minutes and never get the job done? I've got a question for you, naveedip, ask your buddy there why he doesn't be a man and refund my "19 bucks."
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Wednesday, June 29 2005 @ 10:13 AM PDT
Amen, Macsure! Hey, did you ever get YOUR money back?
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Sunday, June 19 2005 @ 11:26 PM PDT
This comment by Mickey Hendrickson exemplifies his feeble attempt to avoid responsibility. I've already explained why it was impossible to grant his request for the mail fiile that would make SpamX fail: once it was relaunched after a quit, it would process the mail file it failed on without any trouble. However, 2 or 3 mails later, it would fail on another one. He just doesn''t get this, or his own tautologicality. However, I did send…
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Sunday, May 29 2005 @ 03:02 PM PDT
Obnoxious user, happy to be rid of.
Read "obnoxious" as a user who is basically a polite person, but one completely frustrated by Hendrickson's evasiveness and denial, and one spending hours of precious time with lack of success. Just asking what an OutOfBounds exception is, was beyond the pale of support for the "19-buck program." Please note as strong evidence, if not proof , of Hendrickson's dissembling and unprofessional approach, his comment on the 4.1.9 version saying that a "handful" of OS…
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Thursday, May 12 2005 @ 07:32 AM PDT
