I received a phone call yesterday.

That b*st*rd Dick passed it on to me. Revenge?

It was from a client who is complaining about his mail not working.

I hacked into his account and went in to the bit where mails are set up. It seems he has been setting up his own mails.

Now, for the uninitiated [including myself], there are two types of account here – a POP account which is where you log in and retrieve all your mails [similar to a Gmail or Hotmail account], and there is a Redirect. A redirect is where you write to that address and it is forwarded on to another account. So when you write to me at grandad at headrambles, it gets forwarded to [email protected]. Got that?

Now this company have set up a total of 36 POP accounts, and another 27 Forwarders. Nothing wrong with that? [apart from being a bit excessive?]

Well, there is.

Because a lot of the addresses are the same on both lists.

So if I write to A, it might end up in A’s account because he has one. Or it might be forwarded to B and C because A is a Forward account as well. Now we don’t know which it will go to, but we assume it goes to B and C.

But B has an account and it also has a forward which points back to A. So that poor old mail may end up going in circles until it dies of exhaustion.

So their mail system is a spaghetti of interconnecting mail accounts which they set up. It is no f*cking wonder they are having problems.

So who are this company?

They are a major training company here in Ireland. And what to they give courses in and degrees in?

Yup.

Computing.

Of course I deleted all their files and put a porn site there.

They don’t deserve to have a web site.