[Coco] Sorry aboiut my absense

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 26 March 2013 13:48:35 Mark Marlette did opine:

> Gene,
> 
> Funny, not funny?
> 
> I was talking to Boisy on the way in this morning during my commute and
> I mentioned to him that we haven't heard from Gene on the list and he
> said...4 minutes ago he posted!!!!
> 
> Welcome back!!!! :)
> 
> Mark
> http://www.cloud9tech.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
>  From: Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com>
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 8:02 AM
> Subject: [Coco] Sorry aboiut my absense
> 
> Greets all;
> 
> And no, contrary to the whispers going around, I haven't 'fallen over'.
> 
> I had a problem with gmail the last week of February, they tried to tell
> my my machine was compromised as the reason I was locked out of my
> account. Sure I was, bunch of windows idiots seem to have invaded
> google.
> 
> First,I don't click on links unless I know the sender, for starters.
> 
> Second, all of my machines on this little home network are behind a
> buffalo netfinity router running the real dd-wrt.  The length of the
> password required to get through it from the outside is estimated in
> the eons by John the Ripper.
> 
> Third, this is linux, java services are disabled except for the jar that
> runs the dw server.  The chances of my being hacked and owned are fairly
> slim IOW.  Even a driveby wifi thief would find it hard to get into here
> via that as its running the good security model with a passphrase that
> resembles a couple paragraphs of War & Peace.
> 
> However, failing to convince google that something was wrong got me to
> scrambling around moving all my list subscriptions to a different mail
> server, and somehow in the process of unsubbing from one address and
> subbed to the new one, mail delivery was suspended.  Now, 2 weeks
> later, gmail is working again and I haven't changed a thing.  Idiots.
> 
> I get lots of email, and didn't notice this list seemed to have gone
> silent.  So I looked it up, but the password of record would not login. 
> So I have mailman send me a pw reminder, which was indeed correct.  So
> I went back and this time the password worked, and I find list delivery
> had been suspended.  Fallout from googles screwup?  Dunno, but its back
> on now, or so it says.
> 
> So I've not gone away, but I have no messages since 27 Feb 2013.  So
> I've missed all the hot & heavy discussions for about the last month. 
> Bummer.
> 
> Cheers, Gene

Somehow the list delivery got turned off.  Scratches head as he wanders off 
to see about making a custom awl for the neighbors leather working.

Cheers, Gene
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