Sunday, May 11, 2003

Learn English from VSNL

In my mailbox today:

From: postmaster@vsnl.net
Subject: Re: Account#: 143694251 - Purchase More pre-paid Hour before they ran out

They tell me I only have "1.362370" hours left in my account. Two days ago, I bought 500 hours. Customer service is getting a piece of my mind once the "24-hour service" that only runs 9 to 5 on weekdays opens again on Monday.
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    kalyan — May 10, 2003 7:13:13 PM — # ↩

    I guess this is the payback time for all the times you have been nmapping their proxy servers
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    manusb — May 11, 2003 11:36:41 AM — # ↩

    Have a look at this email that I got from 123domainregistry.com right after I registered manubhardwaj.net.

    - The fool does not know English
    - The fool does not know of a BCC field
    - The fool does not even bother to confirm if I am using their hosting service before putting me in their BCC field
    - The fool refers to POP3 access as "mails in your out look"
    - The fool has led to the amount of spam in my inbox to increase from zero to ten a day

    Read it to believe it.
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      ravi — May 11, 2003 11:23:30 PM — # ↩

      123domainregistry.com right after I registered manubhardwaj.net

      ... and wtf would you use them, rather than, GANDI? You have only j00rself to blame, imho.

      Also, noticed you're pulling email from mail.symonds.net (right?) -- use postoffice.symonds.net instead ...

      And also noticed you snarfed only your email address, in that list ;/
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        manusb — May 12, 2003 3:46:28 AM — # ↩

        ... and wtf would you use them, rather than, GANDI? You have only j00rself to blame, imho.

        Money. I pay only 450 bucks, I pay it in rupees, AND I get to bitch about it. Three advantages, eh ;) ?

        Also, noticed you're pulling email from mail.symonds.net (right?) -- use postoffice.symonds.net instead ...

        I use secure fetchmail, there's a reason I moved to mail.symonds.net.

        mail.symonds.net:
        fetchmail: 5.9.11 querying mail.symonds.net (protocol POP3) at Mon May 12 10:43:00 2003: poll started
        fetchmail: Issuer Organization: mail.symonds.net
        fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: mail.symonds.net
        fetchmail: Server CommonName: mail.symonds.net
        fetchmail: mail.symonds.net key fingerprint: 36:D6:24:CD:9E:90:B9:3D:1B:F8:B5:E6:93:F1:C9:47
        fetchmail: Warning: server certificate verification: self signed certificate
        fetchmail: Issuer Organization: mail.symonds.net
        fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: mail.symonds.net
        fetchmail: Server CommonName: mail.symonds.net
        fetchmail: Warning: server certificate verification: certificate has expired
        fetchmail: Issuer Organization: mail.symonds.net
        fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: mail.symonds.net
        fetchmail: Server CommonName: mail.symonds.net
        fetchmail: Warning: server certificate verification: certificate has expired


        postoffice.symonds.net:
        fetchmail: Issuer Organization: mail.symonds.net
        fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: mail.symonds.net
        fetchmail: Server CommonName: mail.symonds.net
        fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: mail.symonds.net != postoffice.symonds.net
        fetchmail: postoffice.symonds.net key fingerprint: 36:D6:24:CD:9E:90:B9:3D:1B:F8:B5:E6:93:F1:C9:47
        fetchmail: Warning: server certificate verification: self signed certificate
        fetchmail: Issuer Organization: mail.symonds.net
        fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: mail.symonds.net
        fetchmail: Server CommonName: mail.symonds.net
        fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: mail.symonds.net != postoffice.symonds.net
        fetchmail: Warning: server certificate verification: certificate has expired
        fetchmail: Issuer Organization: mail.symonds.net
        fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: mail.symonds.net
        fetchmail: Server CommonName: mail.symonds.net
        fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: mail.symonds.net != postoffice.symonds.net
        fetchmail: Warning: server certificate verification: certificate has expired


        I don't get those "mismatch" errors with mail.symonds.net. IAC, what difference does postoffice.. or mail.. make? Logs? They resolve to the same IP address...

        By the way, all Puggy's "certificates seem to have expired".

        And also noticed you snarfed only your email address, in that list ;/

        :). The rest deserve it ;-).
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          ravi — May 12, 2003 5:33:11 AM — # ↩

          Money.

          Not worth the pain, IMHO.

          I pay only 450 bucks,

          Yeah, and GANDI is $10 US. Thats 50 rupees more, but um, clued-in admins, and decent NS/hardware, and suchlike, and GANDI being an ICANN-accredited registrar (doubt if your desi guy is ...) ... I'd stick with GANDI

          I don't get those "mismatch" errors with mail.symonds.net

          strncmp("mail.symonds.net","mail.symonds.net",0);

          what difference does postoffice.. or mail.. make? Logs? They resolve to the same IP address...

          mail.[...] is not even required to work, as per puggy policy. It may, any day, suddenly, and without warning, disappear, and your mail setting will break. The mail was meant to be moved onto another box dedicated to do mail, with SSL and other shit, that was to be postoffice.[...] but I guess that never got down to happening.

          Maybe you could ping postmaster@[...] and ask him wtf they're pointing to postoffice.[...] rather than anything else, on /var/www/info.html :)

          all Puggy's "certificates seem to have expired".

          "Whats with the funny quotes?"

          "Anyways, you can whine about that to postmaster@ as well. Can be (And should be) easily fixed, ..."

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