They do not suck in the parts of Georgia that people with at least a high school education live in.

"x264 (otherwise known as h.264"

No - x264 is a free software library. h.264 is a codec.

"a songwriter who hasn't had a hit in ten years"

And Jody, your last hit was when?

"If .Mac has server side spam filtering, then I'm Elvis. In a pink bunny suit."

Well then rock on pink bunny! :-) It does really have server side spam filtering, but I think it is set with a low threshold because of the very fact that you as a subscriber have no way of evaluating what Apple is deciding is spam for you. I don't know what their reasoning is, other then maybe they are counting on the double-layer of low-threshold server side filtering coupled with the client-side built in to Mail.app.

I'm not being a .Mac champion here; I just renewed 15 days away from cancellation after thinking about it for quite some time. But I bought a new mac so I decided to take advantage of the $69 offer. But I do really wish that .Mac would let me review spam mail because I know that I have had mail sent to my .Mac address that simply never reached me.

.Mac has server side spam filtering and has had it from the beginning. The problem is you have no way of viewing emails marked as spam.

"Do your "faves" need to be tmobile customers also?"

No - that's called "unlimited mobile to mobile".

"everyone around the world hates your guts"

Ktino - possibly, but in the same way that people in coach resent people in First Class. :-)

"numerous carriers selecting GSM as their CDMA / TDMA upgrade path"

I thought GSM and CDMA were the options for upgrading from TDMA; whatever one thinks of the GSM vs CDMA "debate" I don't know if a CDMA carrier would change over to GSM.

Kristina - you're really on top of things.

I'd like a SLVR!