Comments on: not that this will make the weekly weekly recap any more fun

By: josh

josh — Tue, 24 May 2005 22:11:53 +0000

Chuck - I apologize for speculating that this was a press release. I read it on my Sidekick on the bus this morning and saw your name at the top of the message. In fact, the e-mail was from someone using the screenname "Ezra Meeker" (who was apparently a nineteenth century prospector/hops distributor who settled in Puyallup. [washington.edu]) I will note the correction in the post.

By: josh

josh — Tue, 24 May 2005 22:04:51 +0000

thanks for the heads-up. I’m able to send myself e-mails, but that isn’t very useful. I’ll look into it.

for what it’s worth, the bargain-basement domain name service / webhost that I use says that the e-mail bounnce isn’t their fault. In case anyone else is having trouble e-mailing me, here’s their FAQ about the bouncing messages:

The most common reasons our servers reject mail from people you know are:

The mail server that sent us the message did not have valid reverse DNS, which is a spammer trick to get around some kinds of spam blocks.

The mail server that sent us the message identified itself using a fake name, which is what spammers always do to conceal the origin of their message.

The mail server that sent us the message used the deprecated [1.2.3.4] notation to identify itself which is now used almost exclusively by email viruses.

By: Chuck Taylor

Chuck Taylor — Tue, 24 May 2005 21:57:51 +0000

For what this is worth, our press release didn’t even mention The Strangler. What you are quoting, apparently, is an internal e-mail.

Otherwise, Dan’s reaction is about what I expected, only shorter.

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 24 May 2005 21:33:58 +0000

I think there’s something up with your email address – I tried sending you something earlier today, and got this: josh@scXXXXXXXXXXXXce.net>