Due to a particularly stupid piece of fuckwittery[1], I've been without a password[2] to my Brunel account since Wednesday night. So, no e-mail, no Usenet until Monday at the earliest. :-( [1] Forcing me to change from UNIX mail to some Mickeysoft system[2]; turns out that was for POP3 and IMAP users only -- I'm neither. [2] For some reason this needed my password reset; it was sent by e-mail[3]. [3] Needless to say, it didn't arrive[4] -- have people forgotten that e-mail is not a secure and robust message delivery system[5]? [4] Well, would _your_ spam-screener's heuristics allow a mail through that had no subject header and just a single cryptic word as payload[7]? [5] They wouldn't resend it[6], and asked if they could send it to my boss; he hasn't received it either[4]. [6] I established some communication via CERN yesterday, after it also was inaccessible Wed night/Thur morning due to a widespread power failure on-site. [7] Although to be fair to the spam screener, I suspect the mail in question was sent _after_ the redirect was put in place...
Well it's a good job they never had email and spam-screener heuristics in Dr Strangelove because "Wing Attack Plan R" would never have got there, and the film would have fizzled out.
As I sent you some email during this period of email tranquility should I send it again next week or will it, after being queued up in cyber-space, be spat out on Monday?
Mick; To be sure, send it to -- I can log on there (with some difficulty; they are having more file-store problems this weekend). Or (there, your own personalised address! tho' I check there less frequently.
Whittingham generously decided to share with us.. Snippetry.. Indeed.. you should post post-pissed innit.. Gid
Having gone over and confronted the Hell-Desk in person, I now have a working password again. I'm sure you don't have to guess what the _very first_ message in my redirected mail-box was...
Mick, watch your mailbox Thurs, assuming you're still Nr King's Lynn. e-mail contacts haven't received a response... -- Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005 WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon) KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
I'm still near King's Lynn. I replied using the email return address each time. Basically the answer was yes please to anything you have on CD. With a big thank you. And an offer of a 'free-be' holiday somewhere warm, sometime in the future. Canaries?
