You can tell that I am a new owner of a car. I'll tell you why.
I just called a few places to inquire about the cost of a MVI (motor vehicle inspection) for my car. After a call to a few garages, I called my dealer, and asked the question. He responded politely:
"The cost of the MVI is regulated by the government, its $25."
I was like, "Shit, I feel like an arse now." (I said this in my head.)
Guess I can go whereever I want for my MVI, so I might as well take it to the dealer since I like our sales guy.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Spamming myself
Music: Funkstörung - B4 || the silk demise - Dead-Letter Queue
At work I have these great little mail filters that sort my incoming mail and place it in the proper spots. So, of Jim from Company X emails me about something it will automatically get sorted into the right spot. Which is great for me, especially where I'm lazy some of the time. (Read: most of the time.)
There are also important server messages that I'm sent regarding the status of some of the hosted sites here at work. If the server goes down, I know about it in 5 minutes or less. On the weekend I don't check my work email all that regularly so getting the notices from Saturday morning on Monday doesn't look too well for me.
I changed the filter on my computer to forward these emails from my work to my personal email at home. Since I'm tied to that like glue, I'd be quicker to get the email and fix the problem.
In theory, this worked great.
I also changed my mail settings to automatically include my work email as a BCC so that I could keep a copy of what I send with the original email. Can you see the problem yet?
An email from about the server came in, and then disappeared from my inbox and went to my personal email. Great.
Problem: Remember that BCC that I said I had added to all out going email?
Well, I got the email from the server again, and it was immediatly forwarded. Which I got again, and forwarded. Within the span of about 90 seconds I had spammed my personal email about 117 times.
Made me laugh all day.
At work I have these great little mail filters that sort my incoming mail and place it in the proper spots. So, of Jim from Company X emails me about something it will automatically get sorted into the right spot. Which is great for me, especially where I'm lazy some of the time. (Read: most of the time.)
There are also important server messages that I'm sent regarding the status of some of the hosted sites here at work. If the server goes down, I know about it in 5 minutes or less. On the weekend I don't check my work email all that regularly so getting the notices from Saturday morning on Monday doesn't look too well for me.
I changed the filter on my computer to forward these emails from my work to my personal email at home. Since I'm tied to that like glue, I'd be quicker to get the email and fix the problem.
In theory, this worked great.
I also changed my mail settings to automatically include my work email as a BCC so that I could keep a copy of what I send with the original email. Can you see the problem yet?
An email from about the server came in, and then disappeared from my inbox and went to my personal email. Great.
Problem: Remember that BCC that I said I had added to all out going email?
Well, I got the email from the server again, and it was immediatly forwarded. Which I got again, and forwarded. Within the span of about 90 seconds I had spammed my personal email about 117 times.
Made me laugh all day.
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