oops, ha is too quick to blame this morning
So I am reading my normal slug of e-mail as I drink my coffee this morning and I see this messges in my inbox from ExchangeDefender.
Not wanting to miss a chance to annoy Vlad I sent him this note,
I think your system is suffering from an identity crisis, it does not recognise itself :>)
In his normal helpful manner (you can find this Vlad on his business sites, not Valdville his personal site) he sent me back the following explanation,
It could be SPAM, not everything from ownwebnow.com is implicitly trusted because it could be web based generated junk.
Unfortunately before I got his reply thinking I was so smart, I approved it as always trust sender, so now I have to go back and figure out how to undo that setting. Probably just go into the white-list and remove it.
And just to make matter worse for my favorite smartass (me), turns out the message was a note from the blog engine asking me if I wanted to approve a reply that had been generated by a robot and contained nothing but spam.
So I sit here out of coffee and red faced eating crow, but have to admit ExchangeDefender Really Rocks!
!!disclaimer for conspiracy nuts out there, yes I am a reseller for ExchangeDefender & OwnWebNow, but that does not make the services any less valuable. Corollary, just because I am paranoid does not mean they are not watching :>)
August 5th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
Man, you just single out the worst in me don’t you :) I was just busy that day and I just bounced a quick response. Picture me, sitting in my Aeron, nodding at the message as I’ve seen/heard this a thousand times saying:
“We don’t just trust a piece of mail because it came from our servers - if its got junk in it, it’s junk, shouldn’t matter that it came from us”
.. said in a very nonchalant way because I get blog spam in all the time.
So it wasn’t a smartass response at all.
As for me being a nice person and helpful.. please don’t market that :) The Diceman persona from vladville.com is up there as a reason, deterrent!
-Vlad