[Heathkit] messages rejected

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

A good point Peter. Juno is not the only one, as Yahoo does it all the time 
too. All of it contributes to the issue, that is for certain.

Unfortunately for the users, mostly of the free services, there is no way to 
turn off the promotional debris in the footer field.

(What follows is not this author using his literary license, it was an 
actual event.) Once upon a time, several years ago, an internet service 
known as Juno was bouncing mail for subscribers of the QTH.NET mail 
reflectors more then the Detroit Pistons double dribbling on a really bad 
night! Subscribers to the over 550 QTH.NET lists were doing more complaining 
and moaning then a bus load of women who bought high heeled shoes that were 
too tight in the toes and were making their toes crooked, as well as causing 
warts! The owner of QTH.NET tried several times to rectify the problem that 
Juno was having with mail to and from its subscribers being rejected by Juno 
and not posting on the QTH.NET lists. The wandering wizards at Juno, all of 
whom wore pointed hats but devoid of stars and other sparkling objects, 
seemed more dense then Lead. About as cooperative as a Missouri bred Mule 
with its two navigation brain cells in reverse! Finally the management of 
the T1 lines capable of 50,000 messages each per minute, the dozens of 
servers and whole host of high speed computers that handled electronic mail 
faster then an entire United States postal main office full of employees 
having just drunk several cups of coffee laced with vitamins, minerals and a 
whole lotta stimulants! Juno suddenly started to get electronic mail faster 
then an entire Great Plains population of Buffalo stampeding to the Porta 
Johns after eating too many little green apples! Those kind that give man 
and beast alike what is known as the Green Apple Quick Step!

The servers at Juno started to sputter, cough, huff and puff and then they 
all fell down like when that Wolf blew those poor little Pigs houses flat! 
Simply put, Juno's system crashed! No more rejected mail. No more bounced 
back mail. No more damn mail at all! Somewhere in the caverns of the 
electronic canyons of cosmic equality, justice had just been dispensed!

Then the management of Juno got a friendly suggestive note telling them to 
stop rejecting mail to and from the Juno subscribers who used QTH.NET or 
that infernal Gremlin who just caused their servers to crash like a house of 
cards in a hurricane might once again be unleashed from his hideout in 
Sigh-Brr space! Then a wonderous thing happened. The Juno system started to 
work right! The mail to QTH.NET was not being drop kicked into Love Canal 
and the mail sent from QTH.NET was being delivered to Juno subscribers with 
no more redirects to therecycling rodents that populate the NYC sewer 
systems! All was well -

Although I altered a name here and a place there, to protect both the 
innocent and the guilty, this really did happen guys! When I first heard 
about it having taken place, I must admit, without shame, that I laughed 
until I fogged up my shades and tears streamed down my cheekcs into my cheap 
plastic computer keyboard and caused several keys to develop a pattern much 
like stuttering!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Markavage" <manualman at juno.com>
To: <zuu6k at juno.com>
Cc: <heathkit at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Heathkit] messages rejected


> This might be causing it. It's done by Juno by default. They add an ad at
> the end of your message:
> "Get the sign you need for the impact you want. Cli*ck n*ow!
> http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3oB4gTsPGU2vIw12GaoSCxl
> O5A549kzNkVV6ByAe7uyNesUH"
>
> By copying and pasting the Juno message, I now have probably less then a
> 50% chance of getting the message through. I'll try to use the asterisk
> to fool the spam filter. You need to go to the Juno home page and log in
> for your mail and then edit your profile to not have them tack the ad on
> to each of your sent mail. There's also an FAQ up there that also
> discusses it.
>
> I also removed the Juno ad from the bottom of your e-mail in this
> message.
>
> Pete, wa2cwa
>
> On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 16:49:18 -0700 Edward B Richards <zuu6k at juno.com>
> writes:
>> The last several items I tried to post were rejected as spam. The
>> reflectors are becoming worthless to me as they won't allow me to
>> post
>> anything.
>>
>> Ed  K6UUZ
>
>
>
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