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12:20:2002 Entry: "Ann : Spamming on the Evils of Spam"
Spamming on the Evils of Spam
Changes are taking place at the finch's nest. This morning the mother looks awkward as she sits in the nest. Normally, she looked comfortable and cosy, but this morning she's askew. Perhaps the eggs have hatched and she doesn't want to crush the babies? The father is hanging around a lot, too. I was able to see him under the awning, fluttering around, kissing her on the beak. When he's not there, he's standing sentry on a branch of the pussy willow tree along with a sparrow and chickadee. I also saw a male cardinal today, although I also saw one in February, which was way too early.
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How's this for absurdity...when I write to a friend (who only has email access through his job), his job's internet provider spams ME back, lecturing me on the evils of spamming, and includes my email back to me, along with all detailed headers. This is what it said (email address changed for obvious reasons):
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From: "Mail" postmaster@mail.blahblahblah.net
Date: Mon Apr 29, 2002 11:28:39 AM US/Central
To: ann@ann-s-thesia.com
Subject: Deliverable Mail
Reply-To: postmaster@mail.blahblahblah.net
Delivery Succeeded: myfriend@mail.blahblahblah.net
The mail server for mail. blahblahblah.net does not want E-mail that fails the REVDNS spam test. However, your message WAS delivered.
In the near future, Your mail may be rejected without notice. Please contact your mailhost and ask them to do their
part in helping prevent SPAM and VIRUS propagation.
(then it listed all my headers with my original email)
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Gee, Dad, thanks for the lecture.
As I have said, things that try to be part of the solution are really part of the problem.
4 Comments
How cool about the finch family! You have a pussywillow tree!!! That's probably the single thing I miss most about living up North! The pussywillows!!! When we were kids we used to collect the branches and keep them. :o)
Posted by Maria @ 04:30:2002:09:24 AM CST
Now I don't know whether the eggs hatched or not as she seems more comfortable. Oh it's so confusing. I just hope the babies will be ok.
Actually, we have two pussywillows. We bought one when we bought the house (it was supposed to be pink, but those things are always doctored in photographs) and one came with the house (we didn't know it was a pussy willow as we bought the house in June after it had already bloomed). But the original one doesn't bloom much because it's too shaded by the lilac tree, and the one we bought is some sort of freaky hybrid that shot up really high so that all the blooming stalks are too high to clip off. And this year was horrible. Right as they were coming in to bloom it got to be 87 degrees, so they disappeared as fast as they bloomed. Not a good pussywillow year.
Posted by Ann @ 04:30:2002:11:07 AM CST
My cardinals (at least I like to think they're mine) were here all winter. A pair lives in the neighborhood and eats at our birdfeeder since it's hung from the second story gutter. The female is a beautiful bird, she's gray in color with a orange/red plume at on the top of her head and has a bright red/orange beak. I think she's more delightful then the male who's all red with a black beak.
Posted by Leann @ 04:30:2002:03:50 PM CST
I wonder if they were there all winter because it was so mild, Leann, or if they don't migrate like I thought they did. I always thought they migrated south in the winter. They seem to disappear in the summer, too, I assume up to Canada. I'm not too well-versed in wild birds. Just lately I've developed an interest, though.
Posted by Ann @ 04:30:2002:08:23 PM CST