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Subject: Re: [OT] e-mail trouble

Author: John Merlino

Date: 21:13:37 03/27/04

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On March 28, 2004 at 00:09:59, Johan de Koning wrote:

>On March 27, 2004 at 23:54:43, John Merlino 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. If so, you can send everything to my new work address:
>>>
>>>jmerlino@seriousmagic.com
>>>
>>>Sorry for the frustration,
>>>
>>>jm
>>
>>Ok, it's almost 9:00pm PST (about 2 1/2 hours after you said that you sent the
>>e-mail) and I still have not received it. <sigh>
>
>It's also exactly 2 seconds between your submission and mine. :-)

But you won. :-)

>And please do not make too much excuses. Even if AOL is to be pinpointed
>as the single culprit (which I doubt), you're still more like a victim
>than a perpetrator.

Indeed, but there is certainly frustration all around. So, perhaps I should say
"Sorry I chose AOL". ;-)

jm



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