SPAM Has Stopped, Wish R8 would stop it too

Finally found the gold. SpamSentinel from http://www.maysoft.com/ Mayflower is the key.
Now before I or you go too far, remember I use Notes as a POP3 client without a Domino server, usually.
So all those who like the other ones, I tried 3-4 already, none would work. Not mentioning names since I am sure they work in other cases not as unique as mine.
You see the problem is Lotus never enabled mail rules on the client side to work without a server. And in R8, this continues. Bummer. So even though I blocked 100's of emails, it never will work without a server.

But now, I have to shell out $50 to Mayflower, but I don't mind, it's unbelievable!
Excellent support staff and very responsive and accepting of advice for enhancements even.

Why did it take me so long to find them, well until the last 6 months I never had more than a handful of spam in my inboxes(under 30 usually), now I get over 100 a day!

So kudos to Allison(she does the video on their website) and Chris(the tech guy who helped me sort out some questions I had). See you in Orlando next year!

Lotus Evangelism is alive and kicking

I posted at another site https://www2.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21077086&postID=5366527023338273982 that asked where are the Supermen of Lotus. And Women.
Well they exist, and like Clark Kent, do not want to be known in the public eye.
It's easy for Ed, Alan and others because that is not their true job, they are high profile people and deserve to be evangelists by default. One would hope more would come out to blog as well, I know Ed encourages them so there is hope.
But having been a Lotus EMEA (Europe Middle East & Africa to the uninformed) "technology advocate"/"Product evangelist"/"IT Specialist" , my team and I preferred being more anonymous.
Why?
Think about it, if everyone knew us, we would be blacklisted from conferences and certain competitor events(ya ya, it never happens, right we just get funny colored badges).

We covered everything we could from ancient times(OS/2, cc:mail DOS) to the mainframe to advanced application design(way out of my field) and java/linux you name it as it came up.
AND we had to be fully knowledgable on every announced product or demo'd at Lotusphere or just downloaded. e-suite? Extended Search? Death of cc:mail? You name it we had to know it.

Calls at anytime of day/night because we could be anywhere in the world, emails/IM's everywhere on everything, meetings with clients in Saunas in Helsinki, yep we did it all.

Sometimes you were saving Lotus during a merger, sometimes it was a "tell us what's new" discussion, other times it was just "so happy someone from corporate came to meet us". Sometimes it was a premiere like R5, Domino.Doc, Quickplace were some of my big ones.

The equivalent of a rock star life within the IT profession, we joked about tour shirts but figured we would run out of space on the shirt.

Demo's, multiple laptops(before vmware), 4 versions of servers, 8 clients running on a thinkpad and someone wants to know how you did it? Magic my friend, and a long plane flight with electrical power.

I was privileged to work with some of the smartest and funniest people I ever could imagine. People who equalled my knowledge in messaging or OS's with their appdev ways or A/V or telco understandings.

Finally after many years some of those people are running the SWAT teams and thank god, because unless you have done the work, you can't possibly understand how to manage a group like us. These guys were all over Orlando, but you had no idea, you watched some of them on stage, maybe on BP day(which is when I used to do most of mine). Maybe the guy in the lab you visited that seemed to know way more about your topic than you expected from them.

So yes, Supermen, and women do exist and they regularly come to your town, but don't tell them I told you.

Job Hunting and the Pregnant wife

Evidently it is not easy to take a job outside of your local area if your wife is pregnant.
I have lost quite a few jobs because the company(some small, some behemoths) could not figure out relocation for us because the family can not come until after the baby and I would have to be back and forth to home.
I have no problem with travel, working remotely or managing remotely or traveling 75% of my time. Evidently some companies do.
So even though I am willing to be based in Atlanta, Spain, Benelux, Seattle and others, I just get turned down because my family holds me back.
This is not right.
So if you have open headcount and don't mind me being based in Boca Raton, Florida for the next 6 months or so, please let me know so I can afford my new baby. Or alolow me to work in country for a week or 2 then home for a week.

Lotus and SPR/QMR and Templates

So what happens in this fast moving world when you encounter a problem, a bug or an issue with your favorite software?
Well you file a complaint with the online feedback location.
NOw, do you expect an immediate answer? Nope.
Do you eventually expect some answer? Yes.
Do you want to wait for a quarterly or semi-annual distribution? I don't think so.

My question is why can't Lotus provide template updates online to registered customers or even in general. Sure not much changes these days to templates but if they did or needed to, why should one have to wait? Sure you could argue there are special templates which require fees, but without the updated server side code, most template changes are useless.

If it was a security thing it would be out immediately. But fixing a sorting tab or button which does not perform as designed surely could be handled differently.

While on this topic, why don't we get a list of openntf.org templates or the ones in the Lotus sandbox when the file-new application dialogue box? MS Office does this very well by sending you to the online template site when you are searching for something.