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Nice move ISP—people who forward spam to the spam complaint department will
have their email flagged as spam and dropped immediately
Okay, that was amusing.
Normally, I post entries via email. I get to use an editor I'm used to using
and I don't have to type in a small text field using whatever the web browser
thinks is a capable editor (it never is).
But when I went to “post” my previous entry [1] it never showed up. I could
see my computer here delivering the email, but I never saw it show up on my
server.
“But Sean,” you say, “if you saw your computer deliver the email, but your
server never got it … um … how does that work?”
“Glad you ask,” I say, knowing full well that you didn't really ask at all.
My ISP (Internet Service Provider) blocks all outbound email except through
their servers. So I had to configure my local email server at Chez Boca to
deliver my email through The Monopolistic Phone Company server, which usually
then delivers the email to my server which ends up posting an entry to the
blog.
So, my computer here delivered the post to The Monopolistic Phone Company,
where it seems it was immedately swallowed up, no doubt marked as spam
because it quoted extensively from a … um … well … “questionable” email. So
I'm sure my email was automatically classified as spam and dumped directly
into the bit bucket.
Now watch as in a few hours the two copies I sent show up posted here.
[1]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2011/12/05.1
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