[plug][OT] Bret Busby: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

[Bret Busby]

On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, John Knight wrote:

> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 12:35:25 +0800
> From: John Knight <anarchist_tomato at hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: [plug][OT] Bret Busby: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
> Resent-Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 12:41:47 +0800 (WST)
> Resent-From: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> 
> Apologies to other pluggers, but I'm trying to get in touch with Bret Busby, 
> and an email I sent quite some time ago  has just bounced back with a 
> failure. Would you be able to contact me offlist from an alternate email 
> addy please (not bubsy.net)?
> 
> Tah. :)
> 
> Make lunch, not war.
> 
> 

I am replying to the list for a number of reasons.

One, is that my email address will be in the From address, and it is 
usually a good idea, to use a From address in an email, for a To address 
in a new email, and thus, avoid typo's, reulting in what happened here.

The second, is that this is one result of typo's, which are abundant on 
the list, and it shows good reason why people should proof read emails 
before sending; especially where the sender of a message types in the To 
address and gets a bounce due to incorrectly typing the To address, like 
an incorrectly typed URL -> "Not Found" (I have made both errors, in the 
past).

The third, reason, is that my name is Busby, NOT bubsy!@##

The funny thing, John, is that you had solved the problem yourself, in 
the message that you sent. This is a good example of the need for 
proof-reading. Have a good look at what you typed, both in the subject 
line, and in the paragrapgh, for the spellings of my name, and, you will 
see what I mean.

Once again, this is good justification, for reading what we send, before 
we send it...

:)

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
  Chapter 28 of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Douglas Adams, 1988
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