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webmaster — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 05:09:42 +0200

Matzo is baaaaccck

I think she donated a dozen gremlins. Somebody at the zoo forgot, and fed them after midnight.

Anyway, we have a problem. The mail server account and addresses are correct in the mailto.pl script. Rather, they are declared correctly in config.pl and read into mailto.pl script variables.

In an unfortunate turn of events, the auction site is not sending email after the web-site pointer was corrected. I may be bald in a couple of days, but Matzo has a history of paying well.

I love the barter system.

Better Wyrlds

Pictures not showing up

DeepGeek — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:27:23 +0200

Matz, as I like to call her, is an animal rehabilitator and you should visit her sites. Start by going to Matzo's Net. From there, you should find many interesting tangents. I am most fond of Dory & the Orphans.

Okay, I realize the title of this post mentions pictures not showing up. There are plenty of pictures at the pages linked above. No … those are not the pages this post is about. I promoted a another website. Hey! So fire me! This is about community.

I was clearing my SPAM filter the other day and came across an email from a member urthling. That member, Matzo, is a long-time association from the days of Dear YaWho and I have missed her outspoken activism. Needless to say I was pleased to find her communication. At the same time, I was annoyed that the email of a friend was in my SPAM queue.

A call for help

Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:55:34 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Matzo --> Woody can you help?
From: "Matzo" _PROTECTED_EMAIL

Hey Woody.

I need help. I am trying to convert my old auction site _OLD_SITE_HIDDEN over to a new pet project that's taken on a life of it's own. The project was a joke Mariah made and has turned into the rehab community reuniting so citizens are not afraid to get help with the illegal wild ones they live with or around.

It's called Law Breakers Anonymous
We refer to it as 'the LBA'. We have a 12 steps program and everything. I have several rehabbers in the auction part of it trying to post auctions to test all the settings. It will not send the registration email nor will it send the forgot password email. It did the other night. My server trouble ticket response said:

Ticket Ref : 4956-QWLN-2002
Ticket Subject : email not functioning properly

Reply:

Hello,

Earlier, we experienced some issues with the mail server hosting your domain's mail. The issue has since been resolved and mail is not being processed by the server without issues. If you are still experiencing trouble, feel free to contact us at any time and we will be more than happy to look into it. Sorry about the inconvenience this might have caused you.

Regards,
--
=======================
Boubacar
Technical Support Team

It still isn't working Woody. I've been trying to figure this out for nearly a week. A tech has a folder called 'ner' in the files for the things he had to do to get it working last week. Please Woody. Help me.

ftp is
_AUTHENTICATION_REMOVED_************************************************
user _AUTHENTICATION_REMOVED_*******************************************
pw _AUTHENTICATION_REMOVED_*********************************************

Miss you guys btw -- I will love you forever -- but then again I already did ...

cgi-bin/auction/config.pl & yourphoto.pl have the stuff I worked on

Matzo
Licensed Wisconsin Wildlife Rehabber
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http://www.doryandtheorphans.com {Help our Native Wildlife!}
http://www.doryandtheorphans.com/cam.html {Live CoonCam}
Visit Dory & the Orphans Blog at http://www.doryandtheorphans.blogspot.com
we are born free, now live to serve, we are the LBA, so mums the word

Better late than never

Okay. I forgive the SPAM filter. Google's likely culpability in the "false positive" was only that almost 6000 Joe Job bounce messages reached webmaster's inbox over one 24-hour period — the same period when Matzo's email arrived. Matzo's e-mail may have swept into the SPAM folder during aftermath cleanup of that flood. Regardless, it would be a week before I found and replied to the e-mail.

Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:13:21 -0400
From: Web Master _PROTECTED_EMAIL
Subject: Re: Matzo --> Woody can you help?

Matzo! Hi. :)

I apologize for the delay. Your email was caught up in a flurry of SPAM and went undetected. There were over 25,000 Joe Job emails last week at the same time your mail came in. I think yours accidentally got moved to my SPAM folder in a bulk move of filter failures. I wonder *who* could have done that? (I'm trying to look innocent. Is it working?)

I registered at your auction site and got the registration email. I requested my "lost password" and got that email too. I guess your problem is resolved?

If you're still having trouble, perhaps *your* SPAM filter is recalcitrant as was mine. I'll do whatever I can for the friend you are.

I would post my banner, but I can't afford the advertising subscription.

-- Woody

Sure … here we are two e-mails and several hundred words after my first apology and still NOTHING about pictures. Stick with me; relevance improves but the plot remains less than riveting.

Obviously, Matzo's SPAM filters pass useful communications better than I. In a very short time, Web Master had Matzo's reply.

Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:36:45 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: Matzo --> Woody can you help?
From: "Matzo" _PROTECTED_EMAIL

Hi Woody.

Yes. You look as innocent as always. :^)

I got the email functioning since I mailed you but now the problem is that photos won't upload for the auctions. It goes to the screen for the browse and upload, but when you click next you get the generic contact webmaster page. The pictures are, in fact, uploading to the correct folder.

Other thing is the stupid thing is running on both sites and won't stay on the right one. That's something my server did that I can't figure out and theye won't help anymore. They said it's my problem with the program.

One other thing is in the places where you post, there are no spaces when you hit enter - it all runs together in one paragraph. Where would I correct that?

If you registered, you also have a mypage and mystore -- feel free to play with yours. One person's link pointed to the wrong spot -- pointed to the auction site instead of their site so I had to manually adjust that.

I would love your banner on the site. I'll set it up so your account isn't charged. I don't have payment processors figured out anyway. Need to figure out the code for AlertPay and 2co -- I don't use PayPal anymore. They decided to randomly limit my account from time to time for no legitimate reasons.

I told my groups I was "calling in the DeepGeek from MyDllUrth" to help resolve our problem so you may have experienced a bit of traffic from curious members over the past week.

Give my love to the family. Yip's gonna love the t-shirts I've almost finished for this LBA project. Still working on the main site that the auction is just a part of.

My # is _PROTECTED_PHONE if you want to call. I have unlimited long distance so could call you if needed.

I've tried posting in mydllurth's forum but it won't let me post anything anywhere. I have been enjoying reading but have to remain silent. Pretty difficult with such an opinionated person. lol

Thanks for getting back to me! I'll go set it so you can just post your banner and not charge your account.

Matzo
Licensed Wisconsin Wildlife Rehabber
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http://www.doryandtheorphans.com {Help our Native Wildlife!}
http://www.doryandtheorphans.com/cam.html {Live CoonCam}
Visit Dory & the Orphans Blog at http://www.doryandtheorphans.blogspot.com
we are born free, now live to serve, we are the LBA, so mums the word

An excellent adventure

Okay! The e-mails are a bit much here. I'll tone them down now.

Yes! We have no pictures (and much more). Suddenly, life's purpose revives. D^Geek jumps in with both feet to a seething cauldron of Perl scripts. I immediately found and corrected some confusion between path and URL. Using the MyStore interface, I created a store with a simple description and version 2 of the My^DLLURTH logo. That worked well, but the store image was a reference to a foriegn hosted image. More testing was needed; I added a banner advertisement.

Still, the banner advertisement did not require an image upload. All that remained was to pollute Matzo's LBA auction with some geeky auction product. What could I auction?

AH HAH!

Why not auction an URTH system consultation? Surely some energy-conscious tree hugger would like a solar-powered surveillance system to protect their patch of endangered wildlife habitat from an encroaching suburbia. Surely the class of people in Matzo's circuit can appreciate such an offer. This is, after all, a test offering. Okay, maybe the test might be a real purchase. We will certainly honor the 95% discount if one buyer takes the auction at minimum bid. Perhaps auction is better advertisement value than banners?

You are bidding on the specification and assembly of a computer by a profesional computer engineer. Hardware, software and shipping are additional costs. We will find the best price/value location for your hardware purchase. We can purchase your hardware and software at our cost plus 10% for warranty documentation processing.

Keep in mind that very capable, standard computers may be purchased from many manufacturers for under $500. If you dont need heavy graphic, audio, processing, visual effects or special cooling … you probably dont want to bid on this. If, however, you want a computer that is right at home on a museum pedestal, or a computer with all the software for your needs, you owe yourself a bid on a professional consultation and equipment certification from My^DLLURTH.

If you have any questions, call us at 877.871.8784 or send your email via the My^DLLURTH contact form.

And thus … the adventure begins.

Better Wyrlds

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