Re: Uh, Oh! Score Tied 1 All

Ray Haddad <ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:04:13 -0600, I said, "Pick a card, any card"
and boots <no@xxxxx> instead replied:

Ray Haddad <ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:42:22 -0600, I said, "Pick a card, any card"
and boots <no@xxxxx> instead replied:

Ray Haddad <ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 21 Jul 2008 05:49:07 GMT, I said, "Pick a card, any card" and
Ultraviolet <violette@xxxxxxxxxxx> instead replied:

Ray Haddad stole the cookies from the cookie jar...

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:22:58 -0600, I said, "Pick a card, any
card" and boots <no@xxxxx> instead replied:

Ultraviolet <violette@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

PJ stole the cookies from the cookie jar...

Ray Haddad wrote:
Skippy's Yahoo! address was shut down because of complaints.

I wonder what happened.

Can't say for sure, of course ... but I'm thinkin' he may just
have strutted in the wrong neighborhood a bit too loudly, a bit
too boldly, a bit too threateningly, a bit too much in all
directions.

Nah, Ray just lied again. Skip's Yahoo address has been tested
and is working fine.

That's nonsense, UV. If you believe it you're crazy. There's no
return bounce if it goes through. There's nothing at all in reply
so how can it be tested and how can you be sure it works? The only
thing that you can be sure of is that it DOESN'T work when you get
a bounce back indicating that.

Ooh, frothy. You test it by sending an email. If you get no bounce,
then the account hasn't been closed.

Exactly. So my bounce back proved it was closed for a while.

No, it doesn't. There are cases where a server will bounce because
it's too stupid to know what else to do with it. What's a store and
forward server supposed to do when it has no space to store anything,
actually issue a reasonable message? Nope, bounce it, because the
bouncing chunk of code is already written.

Boots, it proved it to me. It didn't indicate that the box was full.
It indicated that the account was closed due to complaints. That's
pretty clear. I'm not talking about anything but the very first
bounce I got. As of today, I get no bounces. He must have cleared it
up with Yahoo.

How did it indicate that "the account was closed due to complaints"?

It said something like "This account has been suspended due to
customer complaints." I'm going by memory. I deleted the message as
I had no need to save it.

It's bad business for them to say more than "that account is
temporarily inactive". I certainly wouldn't maintain an account with
a company that told others it thought me a deadbeat or worse.

When I call some folks I know on the phone I get a message saying the
number is "temporarily out of service", but it doesn't say "the party
you are calling is a fucking deadbeat who didn't pay the bill".

Is Yahoo really that grossly rude to its freeloading "customers"?

I have no idea about Yahoo's policy. Every now and again I get one
from Hotmail that indicates the recipient's box is full. With all
the room they allow, I find it hard to imagine filling one up. Most
recently, when you send to Hotmail with more than one URL in the
message it gets tossed into the spam bucket.

Never had a bug in a server routine that ended up going into an
infinite loop containing a mail() function call? It'll fill an inbox
in a trice. Very annoying, especially if the email text is large.

Wasn't there some company recently that was closing the accounts of
people who complained about their service? That wasn't Yahoo, was it?

I hadn't heard anything about any closing of Yahoo accounts. At any
rate, the mail seems to be going through now. As you pointed out,
there's no guarantee that it is but the lack of a bounce message is
a good sign.

I don't understand what all this lunacy is about. I reported
something which I thought was funny and the idiots here have turned
it into a grand conspiracy of some kind.

You've spent a great deal of effort toward what appears to be the goal
of making yourself a perpetual target.

They seem too eager to give me more credit than I have earned.

With Skip gone, who's next in line as "most favored target"? Duh.

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[superstitious heathen grade 8]
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