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Subject: Re: [OT] e-mail trouble

Author: John Merlino

Date: 21:12:11 03/27/04

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On March 27, 2004 at 23:54:41, Johan de Koning wrote:

>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

Exciting! (the latter of those two, I mean).

You can read my new job description (assuming you are remotely interested and
have any free time at all) at:

http://www.seriousmagic.com/employment/RD301.cfm

jm



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