{"id":1546,"date":"2005-04-20T04:28:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-20T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/wordpress\/?p=1546"},"modified":"2005-04-20T04:28:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-20T11:28:00","slug":"the-new-standard-for-chutzpah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/uncategorized\/the-new-standard-for-chutzpah","title":{"rendered":"The new standard for chutzpah"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWed, 20 Apr 2005 00:00:17<\/p>\n

You have been automatically removed from the EDEALSPASS1AOL list (eDeals
\nPermission Pass 1 AOL) as a result of repeated delivery error reports
\nfrom your mail system. This decision was based on the automatic error
\nmonitoring policy in effect for the list, and has not been reviewed or
\notherwise confirmed by a human being. If you receive this message, it
\nmeans that something is wrong: while you are obviously able to receive
\nmail, your mail system has been regularly reporting that your account did
\nnot exist, or that you were otherwise permanently unable to receive mail.
\nHere is some information which may assist you or your local help desk in
\ndetermining the cause of the problem:<\/p>\n

– The failing address is sheer@SHEER.US.<\/p>\n

– The first error was reported on 17 Apr 2005.<\/p>\n

– Since then, a total of 2 delivery errors have been received.<\/p>\n

– The last reported error was: Probe failed.<\/p>\n

PLEASE DO NOT IGNORE THIS MESSAGE. While you can of course re-subscribe
\nto the list, it is important for you to report this problem to your mail
\nadministrator so that it can be solved. This problem is not specific to
\nthe EDEALSPASS1AOL list, and also affects your private mail. This means
\nthat YOU HAVE PROBABLY LOST SOME PRIVATE MAIL AS WELL. Anyone trying to
\nwrite to you during the same time frame will probably have received the
\nsame errors for the same reason. The EDEALSPASS1AOL list is but one of
\nthe many people who may have tried to write to you while your mail system
\nwas malfunctioning.<\/p>\n

DO NOT LET TECHNICAL PEOPLE CONVINCE YOU THAT THIS IS NORMAL. It is never
\nnormal for a mail system to claim that a valid, working account does not
\nexist, just as it would not be normal for the post office to return some
\nof your mail with “addressee unknown” when the address was written
\ncorrectly. It is true that some mail systems are less reliable than
\nothers, and your technical people may be doing the best they can with the
\ntools they have. But, ultimately, the level of service that you are
\nreceiving is the result of a business decision, and not something due to
\na universal technical limitation that one can only accept. Reliable mail
\nsystems do exist, and it is ultimately up to you to decide whether this
\nlevel of service is acceptable or not.
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\n<\/lj-CUT><\/p>\n

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I have just been lectured about email reliability by a spammer.<\/p>\n

But, wait, there’s more!<\/p>\n


\nWed, 20 Apr 2005 01:57:15<\/p>\n

LISTSERV@LISTSERV.VERSUS.COM has just received the enclosed delivery
\nerror as a result of a probe sent to your SHEER@SHEER.US account for the
\nEDEALSMERL list. If you are reading this message, it means that your mail
\nsystem is successfully delivering mail to your mailbox, while at the same
\ntime reporting that an error has occurred (or, alternatively, the error
\ncould be due to a system problem which has since then been fixed). At any
\nrate, LISTSERV has no way to know that you have actually received the
\npresent message, and is operating on the assumption that your e-mail
\naddress is no longer valid. Typically, LISTSERV will send you one or more
\nadditional probe messages, on a daily basis, to determine whether the
\nfailure persists, and if so you will be removed from the list eventually.
\nSome lists are configured to remove users on the first failure.<\/p>\n

Assuming you have not been removed from the list yet, you can stop this
\nprocess by sending the following command to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.VERSUS.COM
\nas soon as possible:<\/p>\n

CONFIRM EDEALSMERL<\/p>\n

This will tell LISTSERV that your account actually does work and that you
\nstill want to receive mail from the EDEALSMERL list.<\/p>\n

While the CONFIRM command will solve your immediate problem, it is only a
\nmatter of time until you find yourself in the same situation again.
\nPlease take a look at the enclosed error report and try to determine
\nwhether it is a genuine error, or just an informational message. Bear in
\nmind that this error report was processed by a computer that cannot tell
\n“User JAIME24 does not exist” from “Please note that the Department of
\nMicrobiology will be closed from December 19 to January 2” or “Attempts
\nto deliver your message have been unsuccessful for 300 seconds; will keep
\ntrying for another 431700 seconds.” These informational messages, while
\npossibly useful to a human reader, should not be sent in answer to a
\nmessage coming from a mailing list (it is very easy for the mail program
\nto determine whether a message is coming from a mailing list). Genuine
\nerrors should be reported to your computer\/network support staff as soon
\nas possible so that they can be corrected.<\/p>\n

————————- Delivery error report ————————-
\nReturn-Path: <>
\nReceived: from gateway.sheer.us (206.124.136-146.blarg.net) by listserv.versus.com (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1b) with SMTP id <20.0003EA6F@listserv.versus.com>; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 1:57:14 -0400
\nReceived: (qmail 7382 invoked for bounce); 20 Apr 2005 08:18:32 -0000
\nDate: 20 Apr 2005 08:18:32 -0000
\nFrom: MAILER-DAEMON@gateway.sheer.us
\nTo: owner-EDEALSMERL*sheer**SHEER*-US@LISTSERV.VERSUS.COM
\nSubject: failure notice<\/p>\n

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at gateway.sheer.us.
\nI’m afraid I wasn’t able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
\nThis is a permanent error; I’ve given up. Sorry it didn’t work out.<\/p>\n

:
\nSheer is phasing out using this address. Please address correspondence to **censored**@sheer.us (for work-related communications) or **CENSORED**@sheer.us (for non-work related communications)<\/p>\n

— Below this line is a copy of the message.<\/p>\n

Return-Path:
\nReceived: (qmail 7376 invoked by uid 500); 20 Apr 2005 08:18:32 -0000
\nDelivered-To: sheer@SHEER.US
\nReceived: (qmail 7315 invoked from network); 20 Apr 2005 08:18:32 -0000
\nReceived: from unknown (HELO listserv.versus.com) (206.83.39.10)
\n by 206.124.136-146.blarg.net with SMTP; 20 Apr 2005 08:18:32 -0000
\nReceived: from copernic (copernic.versus.com) by listserv.versus.com (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1b) with SMTP id <70.0003F1F0@listserv.versus.com>; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 1:03:10 -0400
\nDate: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 01:01:39 -0400
\nFrom: Dent Repair
\nSubject: Dent and ding repair kit
\nTo: sheer@SHEER.US
\nContent-Type: text\/html;
\nMIME-Version: 1.0
\nX-Priority: 3
\nX-MSMail-Priority: Normal
\nImportance: Normal
\nX-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
\nReturn-Path: Dent Repair <\/p>\n

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