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Subject: Re: [OT] e-mail trouble

Author: Johan de Koning

Date: 20:54:41 03/27/04

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On March 27, 2004 at 22:19:52, John Merlino wrote:

>On March 27, 2004 at 21:38:21, Johan de Koning wrote:
>
>>On March 27, 2004 at 20:30:27, John Merlino wrote:
>>
>>>On March 27, 2004 at 18:03:19, Johan de Koning wrote:
>>>
>>>>On March 27, 2004 at 16:08:46, John Merlino wrote:
>>>>
>>>>[snip]
>>>>
>>>>Hi John,
>>>>
>>>>It seems my e-mails are not reaching you for the last couple of months.
>>>>I'm pretty clueless about these things, and the fact that bounce reports
>>>>arrive only after weeks isn't helping much either.
>>>>
>>>>Am I getting trapped in filters?
>>>>Did you get similar complaints?
>>>>Does my ISP suck? (yes it does, BTW)
>>>>
>>>>... Johan
>>>
>>>In fact, I have also been told by two other people that they have been trouble
>>>sending me e-mails (although, not EVERY e-mail these people are sending is
>>>getting bounced). I have no idea what is causing it, because it seems like
>>>everybody else's e-mails are getting through fine.
>>>
>>>Perhaps it is AOL's wonderful "Advanced Spam Filter" . :-) (my ISP sucks also).
>>>Yes, I have not received an e-mail from you for over a month, but I figured it
>>>was because you were swamped with other things (like CCC threads) ;-)
>>
>>LOL. But me not responding is typically a sign of being swamped with
>>*one* thing. :-) Not necessarily a computer chess thing.
>>
>>Andersson's reply made sense though.
>>Particularly since Tiscali has a bad history re: spreading spam.
>>
>>Anyway, test message #1 sent. Let's see ...
>>
>>... Johan
>
>Assuming you sent the test e-mail at about the same time as you posted the above
>(about 6:35pm PST), then it has been about 45 minutes and I have still not
>received the e-mail. I'll give it another hour or two, and post here again if
>the message is still MIA.

Assumption correct.
Side note: Europe went DST tonight, USA will next week.
But that shouldn't influence e-mail traffic.

> If so, you can send everything to my new work address:
>
>jmerlino@seriousmagic.com

Glad to hear you have new work.
I'll send a test spam when I'm done with my taxes and the engine update. :-)

... Johan



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