oldbloke's mutterings

9 quid on Real Madrid at 2-9, to beat Dynamo Kiev.

I'd like to bet a fish on Surreal Madrid, but they're mysteriously not listed

I have a script that runs every 6 minutes, pop3's to a mail server, grabs all the waiting mail for a certain user, does various checks on the headers and body and sends one of a variety of replies depending on what it found.

Now, most spam gets a reply mentioning that the Subject didn't include the required phrase, and that's the end of it.

But at about 23:00 last night, postmaster@namdeletedtoprotectthenumpty sent an Undeliverable response to one of those.

Of course, the script sent a Bad Subject response to that, and guess what?

postmaster@ is Undeliverable too.

So they've been pingponging mails every 6 minutes since. I suppose I ought to break the cycle at some point. Next week maybe.

It irks me somewhat that I can get mail from postmaster@ but not reply to postmaster@, though.
I may do a lookup and find out somebody I can moan at.

regsvr32 g:\windows\system32\jscript.dll
regsvr32 g:\windows\system32\vbscript.dll

...and now my #2 machine is back to normal.

Can't help but wonder what it was that got them unreg'd, though!

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LateNightPoker returns, with a slightly modified title and format, tonight on C4 at midnight.

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Some of you may know the home game I play in is called The Victoria Coren Supporters' Club.
The name is just an accident of history, really, but guess what?
Vicky just won the London leg of the 2006 EPT. A £3,500 buy-in became £500,000. Nice!
pics: http://www.thehendonmob.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11314
NB This is apparently the first time a woman has won a major (>$500,000 1st prize) televised tournament. Or something. Some kind of record, anyway. Jennifer Harman eat your heart out!