Thursday, January 22, 2004
Well, yes, I was sure that was the situation. So I did some more detective work. I went to my plain text work email and tried it in plain text, writing http://blogger.com. There was no bounce. But when I actually imbedded it in an HTML link, then the mail bounced! So that is the key, AOL is bouncing any HTML email link containing the text "blogspot"!
My email to blogspot/blogger/pyra labs support today:
---paste--->>
Did you guys know that any URL that says "http://anything.blogspot.com" or "http://blogspot.com" that is contained in an email to AOL, bounces?
This started today for the first time. My blog URL is in my signature, as well as some other URL's. I did some detective work sending emails with different URL's to figure out which one was "generating a lot of complaints".
Are they really responding to complaints or are you cutting into their financial interests?
Here is a paste of one of the bounces:
--->>>paste>>>>
Date: 22 Jan 2004 16:44:24 -0000
From: MAILER-DAEMON@yahoo.com Add to Address Book
To: thinnmann@yahoo.com
Subject: failure delivery
Message from yahoo.com.
Unable to deliver message to the following address(es).
:
64.12.138.57 failed after I sent the message.
Remote host said: 554 TRANSACTION FAILED: (HVU:B1) The URL contained in your email to AOL members
has generated a high volume of complaints. Per our Unsolicit
--- Original message follows.
Return-Path:
Message-ID: <20040122163721.82694.qmail@web13810.mail.yahoo.com>
Received: from [151.198.171.57] by web13810.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:37:21 PST
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:37:21 -0800 (PST)
From: "thinnmann@yahoo.com"
Subject: ignore this email
To: Coachhoch@aol.com
In-Reply-To: <9d.43971564.2d410bbb@aol.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-947904358-1074789441=:82474"
--0-947904358-1074789441=:82474
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
this is just a test... ignore this email
http://blogspot.com
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Did you guys know that any URL that says "http://anything.blogspot.com" or "http://blogspot.com" that is contained in an email to AOL, bounces?
This started today for the first time. My blog URL is in my signature, as well as some other URL's. I did some detective work sending emails with different URL's to figure out which one was "generating a lot of complaints".
Are they really responding to complaints or are you cutting into their financial interests?
Here is a paste of one of the bounces:
--->>>paste>>>>
Date: 22 Jan 2004 16:44:24 -0000
From: MAILER-DAEMON@yahoo.com Add to Address Book
To: thinnmann@yahoo.com
Subject: failure delivery
Message from yahoo.com.
Unable to deliver message to the following address(es).
64.12.138.57 failed after I sent the message.
Remote host said: 554 TRANSACTION FAILED: (HVU:B1) The URL contained in your email to AOL members
has generated a high volume of complaints. Per our Unsolicit
--- Original message follows.
Return-Path:
Message-ID: <20040122163721.82694.qmail@web13810.mail.yahoo.com>
Received: from [151.198.171.57] by web13810.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:37:21 PST
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:37:21 -0800 (PST)
From: "thinnmann@yahoo.com"
Subject: ignore this email
To: Coachhoch@aol.com
In-Reply-To: <9d.43971564.2d410bbb@aol.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-947904358-1074789441=:82474"
--0-947904358-1074789441=:82474
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
this is just a test... ignore this email
http://blogspot.com
Monday, January 12, 2004
The Deer Incident (see my previous post) may make one ponder the very nature of reality (or the reality of nature?)....
There is an open road in the Catskill Mountains. A moving vehicle passes a certain point only every 5 minutes, on average there, I'd bet. There is a deer. The deer has an established deerpath that it traverses once per day on average, I'd bet. Why doesn't said deer recognize that big moving things cross its path at a certain point on its path since said deer has experience with its path over time? Why doesn't said deer cross this open road during the majority of time when there is no big thing moving down it? What force makes two points in the universe intersect at a humanly inopportune instant?
So many factors come into play defining that instant in time. For us that day some of the factors were
~our decision to not ski
~our time spent shopping at the Howe Cavern Gift Shop
~the slow-moving truck that pulled out and bottled-up the road for a few minutes just prior to the deer incident
For the deer, I suppose some factors that come into play are
~the fact that their eyesight is naturally selected to see jerky motion instead of constant-speed motions, like moving vehicles
~the loss of habitat
~overpopulation (of deer)
~the need to find more food during the winter
There is an open road in the Catskill Mountains. A moving vehicle passes a certain point only every 5 minutes, on average there, I'd bet. There is a deer. The deer has an established deerpath that it traverses once per day on average, I'd bet. Why doesn't said deer recognize that big moving things cross its path at a certain point on its path since said deer has experience with its path over time? Why doesn't said deer cross this open road during the majority of time when there is no big thing moving down it? What force makes two points in the universe intersect at a humanly inopportune instant?
So many factors come into play defining that instant in time. For us that day some of the factors were
~our decision to not ski
~our time spent shopping at the Howe Cavern Gift Shop
~the slow-moving truck that pulled out and bottled-up the road for a few minutes just prior to the deer incident
For the deer, I suppose some factors that come into play are
~the fact that their eyesight is naturally selected to see jerky motion instead of constant-speed motions, like moving vehicles
~the loss of habitat
~overpopulation (of deer)
~the need to find more food during the winter
Friday, January 09, 2004
I need to begin using this on a daily basis because I have touted the value of blogs and will be teaching a course on using them soon.
I have been very busy this week, the first back from the holiday vacation. I am stressed out just a little bit because there was just so much to be done this week because of the deer event that occured during vacation. I will get to the deer event in a minute. In addition to dealing with said event, there is also the need to finish a newsletter that i am way past deadline on for work, and to do another document of goals from Dr. McCloud. I have scheduled myself to do this here in East Brunswick VT. I would rather be out in the schools working with teachers than sitting here.
The deer incident:
We went to Belleayre for 6 days of skiing. For the most part the skiing was solidly OK. There wasn't as much snow as there was a week prior because of some rainy days in-between. When we were there the weather was relatively warm and sunny - a bit too warm, actually. Skiing in good snow and warmer temps is definitely preferable to teens or single digit temps.
So on December 30th it was damp and rainy in the morning. We decided not to ski, but instead to go to Howe Caverns. So we all piled into my Caravan: my family and the Freindlichs too. We stuffed Sherri, Debbie, Jeffrey & Leah in the back seat - 8 people in the 7 passenger van. We went to the caverns, we walked we saw; we were there two years ago too. Pretty much the same - but maybe the kids understood a little more, especially Caitlin and Rachel.
On the way home one suicidal deer decided to run in front of the van. We struck it at about 50 MPH on Route 30 outside of Margaretville, NY. I had no time to brake. No deer was in front of the car one split second, and then it was there, with its head being snapped back over the hood ornament, a suprised look in its eyes, and a piece flying off as her hind quarter bent arond a crumpling driver-side quarterpanel. It was a square hit that gave the van only a slight jolt and sent the carcass off the roadway and into the woods, as far as I could tell.
Then I had time to brake. I got out of the door with a little difficulty, and viewed the dammage. The grille was gone, the driver-side lights and quarterpanel was toast and i am lucky the door still was openable, and the hood was bent down. I am lucky the airbag did not inflate, probably because the deer's torso was higher than the bumper and there was no sudden stopping or braking action. No one in the vehicle was hurt and it was apparently still driveable. Good because we were in the middle of Catskill woods at 5PM twilight, and it was cold and damp outside.
The most affected persons were probably Leah, Jeffrey, and Debbie. They felt for the deer and its sudden violent death. Especially Leah, who cried for a while. She probably saw those brown startled eyes over the hood and the body parts separating as I did. Andy kept saying i did a good job, because the vehicle remained in control and it could have been worse, and that the deer was dead on impact so she never knew what hit her.
So we finally got a cell phone signal in Margaretville, a few miles down the road. Andy called the state police who were not overly concerned that another deer died on the roads in the Catskills. When we stopped for some food at the supermarket in Margaretville, I noticed the van was dripping radiator fluid and i felt that we better get back to Andy & Debbie's cabin because the kids were with us and then at least if the van became undriveable Andy could drive us around in his. We still had about 5 miles to go and it was now completely dark. I was guessing the impact compromised the radiator.
So we got back to Andy & Debbie's cabin OK. I called the insurance company and let them know what happened. Andy and I went to a local general store and I got some radiator sealant and antifreeze, hoping to be able to get the car back to our house up there, and salvage our last day of skiing that was supposed to be Dec. 31, and then get the car back to NJ - close to a 3 hour drive.
I added the sealant and the level in the radiator did not look low. I circulated the sealant in park for 15 minutes. It seemed to be fine. Then the temp guage started climbing. I turned it off and found the only place fluid was coming out was from the cap of the radiator. Why would that happen? I checked its tightness, OK.. then i noticed the fan's plastic support structure was broken, and it could not run! So the radiator, though a bit warped, was intact, and i just couldn't idle for long and it would be fine. It helped that the weather was cold, too.
So we skied on New Years Eve during the day. We discovered the heat was not working - something connected to the radiator obviously. Cold air just blew through the vehicle. So we wore ski clothes on the drive home. Andy & family followed us all the way to make sure we got there OK. I had to use duct tape to cover all the air vents. I managed to pick up the last roll at CVS in Woodstock since the hardware store was closed on New Years Day.
So I took the car to our Auto Body Shop at Piscataway Vo-Tech. The estimate, over $4K with new parts, totalled the 93 Caravan with 150K miles (Blue Book is about $2300).
The insurance adjuster did not see the car until Wednesday this week. On Wednesday afternoon I shopped for a new van at only one dealer. On Wednesday night we bought a 2001 Chryseler Town & Country EX. On Thursday night we got ready for another ski trip which we will leave for this afternoon.
What a whirlwind week it has been!
I have been very busy this week, the first back from the holiday vacation. I am stressed out just a little bit because there was just so much to be done this week because of the deer event that occured during vacation. I will get to the deer event in a minute. In addition to dealing with said event, there is also the need to finish a newsletter that i am way past deadline on for work, and to do another document of goals from Dr. McCloud. I have scheduled myself to do this here in East Brunswick VT. I would rather be out in the schools working with teachers than sitting here.
The deer incident:
We went to Belleayre for 6 days of skiing. For the most part the skiing was solidly OK. There wasn't as much snow as there was a week prior because of some rainy days in-between. When we were there the weather was relatively warm and sunny - a bit too warm, actually. Skiing in good snow and warmer temps is definitely preferable to teens or single digit temps.
So on December 30th it was damp and rainy in the morning. We decided not to ski, but instead to go to Howe Caverns. So we all piled into my Caravan: my family and the Freindlichs too. We stuffed Sherri, Debbie, Jeffrey & Leah in the back seat - 8 people in the 7 passenger van. We went to the caverns, we walked we saw; we were there two years ago too. Pretty much the same - but maybe the kids understood a little more, especially Caitlin and Rachel.
On the way home one suicidal deer decided to run in front of the van. We struck it at about 50 MPH on Route 30 outside of Margaretville, NY. I had no time to brake. No deer was in front of the car one split second, and then it was there, with its head being snapped back over the hood ornament, a suprised look in its eyes, and a piece flying off as her hind quarter bent arond a crumpling driver-side quarterpanel. It was a square hit that gave the van only a slight jolt and sent the carcass off the roadway and into the woods, as far as I could tell.
Then I had time to brake. I got out of the door with a little difficulty, and viewed the dammage. The grille was gone, the driver-side lights and quarterpanel was toast and i am lucky the door still was openable, and the hood was bent down. I am lucky the airbag did not inflate, probably because the deer's torso was higher than the bumper and there was no sudden stopping or braking action. No one in the vehicle was hurt and it was apparently still driveable. Good because we were in the middle of Catskill woods at 5PM twilight, and it was cold and damp outside.
The most affected persons were probably Leah, Jeffrey, and Debbie. They felt for the deer and its sudden violent death. Especially Leah, who cried for a while. She probably saw those brown startled eyes over the hood and the body parts separating as I did. Andy kept saying i did a good job, because the vehicle remained in control and it could have been worse, and that the deer was dead on impact so she never knew what hit her.
So we finally got a cell phone signal in Margaretville, a few miles down the road. Andy called the state police who were not overly concerned that another deer died on the roads in the Catskills. When we stopped for some food at the supermarket in Margaretville, I noticed the van was dripping radiator fluid and i felt that we better get back to Andy & Debbie's cabin because the kids were with us and then at least if the van became undriveable Andy could drive us around in his. We still had about 5 miles to go and it was now completely dark. I was guessing the impact compromised the radiator.
So we got back to Andy & Debbie's cabin OK. I called the insurance company and let them know what happened. Andy and I went to a local general store and I got some radiator sealant and antifreeze, hoping to be able to get the car back to our house up there, and salvage our last day of skiing that was supposed to be Dec. 31, and then get the car back to NJ - close to a 3 hour drive.
I added the sealant and the level in the radiator did not look low. I circulated the sealant in park for 15 minutes. It seemed to be fine. Then the temp guage started climbing. I turned it off and found the only place fluid was coming out was from the cap of the radiator. Why would that happen? I checked its tightness, OK.. then i noticed the fan's plastic support structure was broken, and it could not run! So the radiator, though a bit warped, was intact, and i just couldn't idle for long and it would be fine. It helped that the weather was cold, too.
So we skied on New Years Eve during the day. We discovered the heat was not working - something connected to the radiator obviously. Cold air just blew through the vehicle. So we wore ski clothes on the drive home. Andy & family followed us all the way to make sure we got there OK. I had to use duct tape to cover all the air vents. I managed to pick up the last roll at CVS in Woodstock since the hardware store was closed on New Years Day.
So I took the car to our Auto Body Shop at Piscataway Vo-Tech. The estimate, over $4K with new parts, totalled the 93 Caravan with 150K miles (Blue Book is about $2300).
The insurance adjuster did not see the car until Wednesday this week. On Wednesday afternoon I shopped for a new van at only one dealer. On Wednesday night we bought a 2001 Chryseler Town & Country EX. On Thursday night we got ready for another ski trip which we will leave for this afternoon.
What a whirlwind week it has been!
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