Thursday, January 23, 2003

Spokane Peace Rally Google Search It On Saturday I attended a Peace Rally of all things.  This was my first time to attend such an event and I confess I was only there for a short time but I was glad I went none-the-less.  I firmly believe that the rallying cry to go to war that we are hearing from President Bush at the moment is simply not right.  It has been surprising given all the claims Bush made to his guilt that the Iraqi inspectors have not turned up anything of significance, but since this is the case I don't see how we can possibly be looking to attack an entire nation when there is no evidence of guilt.  What amazes me is the double standard on this issue.  If we prosecuted someone in the US without evidence there would be a huge outcry.  Why do we have such a double standard against those over seas.  I am truly baffled.  Here are a couple of the pictures I took at the event.... no, I am not in any of them although I did try get a picture of Benjamin carrying a NO WAR sign. For more pictures of the rally see here. 9:09:55 PM   []    comment []

Spamcop Delays Email Delivery Mystery Solved Google Search It Early in the year I shared a problem I was having with the a new spam service I was using called Spamcop.  As describe in the Spamcop Delays Email Delivery posting my email was not getting through correctly.  It appears the problem was inside Exchange.  Exchange appears to queue all messages to a particular domain and if the first message in the queue fails to be delivered successfully then none of the remaining messages for that domain are attempted.  Since Spamcop verifies that the sending domain is valid and rejects messages from senders that do not have valid domains, a spam message with an invalid sender domain gets rejected.  In rejecting the first messsage in the queue any other message to spamcop are delayed (while waiting for the first message to be delivered.)  The result was that no messages were delivered until the first offending message timed out.  Yuck!  To solve the problem the spamcop administrator changed their configuration to not check for valid domains on messages coming from my server/IP address.  Clearly this is not an ideal solution but until I figure out how to configure Exchange to queue differently I am stuck with it. 12:08:59 AM   []    comment []

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