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Hi, Jon Oxer!

Some people have been having trouble, but many others not. I think that a copy of the error messages you happen to see happen — then pasted in by you (y'all if not Jon) as a reply to this — might help me ta figgah out precisely what is coming unstuck and where.

An ISP and a few other people have done things to the system(s) involved, things which seem generally to have helped (some of them quite markedly), but sadly not always.

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Anonymous said…
Greets Leon
Here is a message I posted in reply to your message to the linuxau committee list the other day. Yell if and when you want to take the helm. I'm pretty new to the linuxau way of doing things so I've been a pretty quiet participant.

Pia also replied to your post with a question asking if youd like to rejoin.

Thanks for the ++
and welcome back =)

______
Great to hear from you with wry humour intact.
Yell if at anypoint youd like to recommittee yourself
but sounds like youve got plenty to juggle in any case.

Many severals of Bravo! from this corner ofr the world to yourself and your family and friends as from here it looks like the whole is
a determined and effective unit for recovery.

Kim is also a city cyclist.
I reckon there need to be some big changes to the space allowed for bikes on the road(ie the bikelane in the doorspace of a parking lane is not a brilliant default setup) and to people's sense of responsibility about bikes anyway.

Waving from here.

Janet
Anonymous said…
heres a header thingy from my bounced mail. cheers janet/lucychili
had to change the brackets to round for the blog software.

This is the Postfix program at host spamtrap.cyberknights.com.au.

I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.

For further assistance, please send mail to (postmaster)

If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the attached returned message.

The Postfix program

(leon@cyberknights.com.au): User unknown in virtual alias table



Reporting-MTA: dns; spamtrap.cyberknights.com.au
X-Postfix-Queue-ID: 77687A704B
X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; lucychili@internode.on.net
Arrival-Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 12:02:20 +0800 (WST)

Final-Recipient: rfc822; leon@cyberknights.com.au
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; User unknown in virtual alias table
Leon RJ Brooks said…
Thanks, y'all. I think I need to read more about some of PostFix's fancier virtualisation tables in the morning when I have (mostly) brains again. The reason being that what I see matches the internal documentation as I understand it but I'm not certain that I do understand it. (-:
Leon RJ Brooks said…
Lucy, as far as I can tell, the trap was deliberately set every time.

Mere laws aren't going to stop that, and issuing death penalties for being a malicious butt-wipe will simple add challenge and derring-do for the forms of utter idiot who don't realise that "achieving" this level of density is terminally stupid. And turn getting away with said stupidity into an all-or-nothing situation, even though in the criminal's case here he didn't have a chance of so obscuring things.
Leon RJ Brooks said…
Chili/Janet (and I guess Pia), as with everything else you ever do, success relies on a persistent (but not damning or erosive) awareness of the random meatheads who thrive on their pathetic "talent" for hurting other people.

Dodge them, work around them, find ways to eliminate or at last massively curtail their pathetic cost, and your life will be a much happier one.

In cycling, as in almost anything else, the key appears to be a gentle skepticism of odd circumstances, somewhat assisted by a consistently undying drive to make harmful idiocy completely unrewarding for its proponents.

This often has two effects; immediate denial of the losers' pleasure in hurting people (demotivation), followed by a lasting education for said losers (that perhaps being a lasting waste of space and/or brains ain't gunna work -- that means for ever and for real; and that there are better ways of living and there is more to live for).
Anonymous said…
the email is still broken today, I sent another test message a few minutes ago and still got the error returned

[-- Attachment #1: Notification --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.4K --]

This is the Postfix program at host spamtrap.cyberknights.com.au.

I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.

For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster

If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the attached returned message.

The Postfix program

leon@cyberknights.com.au: User unknown in virtual alias table

[-- Attachment #2: Delivery report --]
[-- Type: message/delivery-status, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.3K --]

Reporting-MTA: dns; spamtrap.cyberknights.com.au
X-Postfix-Queue-ID: EE597A705F
X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; sjh@svana.org
Arrival-Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 14:37:10 +0800 (WST)

Final-Recipient: rfc822; leon@cyberknights.com.au
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; User unknown in virtual alias table

[-- Attachment #3: Undelivered Message --]
[-- Type: message/rfc822, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 1.1K --]

Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 16:37:06 +1000
From: Steven Hanley sjh@svana.org
To: Leon Brooks leon@cyberknights.com.au
Subject: knock knock, is this email thingy working now....
Reply-To: Steven Hanley sjh@svana.org
Content-Disposition: inline
User-Agent: Some Random Email Client
Organization: much sought in this hectic world
X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: locally generated
X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: sjh@svana.org
X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on svana.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false

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