Folks,
Call me bored (boring?.. :0) But since it seems that we are all drumming our fingers waiting for an eventual news release of the processor being operational, I thought I might share something with you from my AOL "deadletter" box.
This email message came to me yesterday via AOL:
The mail you sent could not be delivered to:
550 gdennisem@aol.com is not a known user
The text you sent follows:
>From RReece7297@aol.com Thu Oct 2 08:02:08 1997
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Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 08:02:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: RReece7297@aol.com
Message-ID: <971002080207_1430020096@emout11.mail.aol.com>
To: GDennisEM@aol.com (technicalsupport)
Subject: Re: Billing Question
In a message dated 95-12-30 12:02:41 EST, you write:
<< Dear RReece7297,
I am writing to you on behalf of America Online in answer to your recent
E-mail.
You have been issued credit as per your request. You can verify this using
keyword BILLING. Keep in mind, however, that processing your credit may take
up to 24 hours.
If you have any additional questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to
contact us.
Thank you for using America Online. We hope you are enjoying the service.
GDennisEM
Billing Support Representative
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>>
I tried three times to reply to this message. I originally logged in at
approx 12:45PM on the 30th for 10 minutes. I tried to send this and it
locked up on me. I reconnected for 5 minutes and it did it again. I then
relogged in and decided to send it when I finished perusing the BB's. I then
suffered a GPFault after posting a message on a BB, which caused my entire
reply to be erased. (lost forever). I'm just a little p*ssed off at the way
the system is behaving today. And I've had more problems than are reflected
by the credit time I've requested. (I only discovered I could ask for credit
last week.) I figure that AOL owes me over 3 hours of cumulative time since
I signed up.
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Did anyone catch the date that I originally sent this message? 95-12-30 12:02:41 EST!!!!! I remember vividly how frustrated I was in having the AOL system lock out any of my posts. (does it show??)
What I really want to know is which dark crevice of cyberspace this return message from the AOL technician has been lurking in. I understand how snail mail can become lost/stolen/destroyed, and thus, never delivered, but Email????
Alien Abduction??
Thought I would share this with you so that you would know that eventually all of your lost email will eventually get to to where you sent it, if even a couple of years late.... <VBG>
Regards,
Ron |
