[fpc-devel] Off topic: bounce messages etc.

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

On 05 Oct 2007, at 08:46, Jonas Maebe wrote:

 > Yes, see the mail below (that person's email address started bouncing
 > recently and he was automatically unsubscribed from the list because
 > of that though).

I was "the person below", and I'd like to apologise, explain, and have a very 
subdued rant.

First, an apology. Something went wrong in a script on our site and it bounced 
messages. I'm sorry.

Second, an explanation. The reason things went wrong is that this list started 
distributing messages with suspect Received: headers. These originated at 
T-Online who apparently changed their email routing, the next time the only 
member of this list who uses T-Online posted our business systems were knocked 
out. Perhaps somebody would like to confirm that there is some RFC that 
permits a machine name of about 110 characters in a Received: header?

Third, a rant. Our systems were knocked out at 16:00 one Saturday afternoon. 
That was the first time we'd had an outage for about seven years. It's also 
the first time for seven years that I was in a position that I couldn't get at 
them and work out what was going on. I think people can probably work out for 
themselves how I feel about that.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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