Phooey (#4)
Another feature of having to temporarily move the weblog from pell to gehenna is that mail still wants to go to pell, which is answering the phone with a "421 WE'D LOVE TO TALK TO YOU BUT OUR DISK IS ON FIRE" instead of picking up the mail and dropping it on the floor. Most machines will keep retrying the mail for a day or so, but some of the big ISPs (m*cr*s*ft and **l come immediately to mind) have a timeout that's much shorter than a day. By the time I get to pell tomorrow (sometime around noon, because There! Are! Important! Things! I! Have! To! Do! At! Work! Tomorrow! Morning!) mail will have been down for about 20 hours, so anyone who mails from a big ISP will have had the stupid ISP return the mail with some ABSOLUTELY BOGUS error code, and I'll have to spend the next two months explaining to people that, no, I still have an account on Pell and yes, they can keep sending mail, but it might be worthwhile to find a mail provider that's not quite so stupid about transient mail server errors.
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David, do you want or need another gmail account invite? JV