[Vhfcn-l] Please consider

[Jerry Feldman]

Others have commented.
If an email message cannot be sent when the server tries the first time,
that message is placed in a queue. The server cycles through the queue
periodically. (we use postfix, so if you want details you can look it up).
I think I got your email on Monday. Messages can sit in the queue for up to
5 days. In a listserve, recipients don't get the messages at the same time.
Much depends on the recipients email system. I can look stuff up in the
servers log. My email is Gmail. (gaf at gapps.blu.org) is a Gmail account.
Looking at the server, your email was posted to the server Monday, April 6
at 8:49.
Your ISP refused to talk to us:
Apr  6 08:49:59 driftwood postfix/error[553]: 4D2B63102689: to=<
gthewlis at comcast.net>, relay=none, delay=15, delays=0.02/15/0/0.1,
dsn=4.0.0, status=deferred (delivery temporarily suspended: host
mx1.comcast.net[96.114.157.80] refused to talk to me: 554
resimta-po-33v.sys.comcast.net resimta-po-33v.sys.comcast.net
216.235.254.230 found on one or more DNSBLs, see
http://postmaster.comcast.net/smtp-error-codes.php#BL000010)
we tried to send the email to comcast 135 times until yesterday evening.
Apr  8 19:20:56 driftwood postfix/smtp[10276]: 7B5B339A6626: to=<
gthewlis at comcast.net>, relay=mx2.comcast.net[68.87.20.5]:25, delay=365854,
delays=365728/111/15/0.3, dsn=2.0.0, *status=sent* (250 2.0.0
MK08jXXF2pQ3vMK08jLkbZ mail accepted for delivery)
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at gapps.blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
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On Thu, Apr 9, 2020, 9:34 AM Gary Thewlis via Vhfcn-l <
vhfcn-l at lists.vhfcn.org> wrote:

> Sorry to be slow reacting – as a couple of you also commented email
> delivery
> seems to be a bit impacted at present. Late yesterday I received all the
> VHFCN traffic for this week to include my own musings posting from early
> Monday.
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> I do agree that politics and, yes, religion, are poor subjects for debate
> and contention. Faith is not an argument, not something to “wave in my
> face”
> if I recall the comment correctly. I do think faith plays more than a small
> part in politics these days, hence the grouping.
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> "but to save so much that is, frankly, under siege.”
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> What I am trying to say without triggering just reflex responses is what
> seems to me to be the proactive degradation to dismantlement of the
> constitution and government. I do not think this is brand new, nor do I
> think it is the “fault” of one side alone. But that “trend”, if you will,
> is
> no longer within the boundaries of established and accepted behavior where
> power is concerned. I believe that established, accepted, and respected
> behavior by all helps insure dialogue and compromise can best achieve
> actual
> representative results. We the people are disappearing, while us the right
> and them the wrong is ascendant.
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> Maybe I am Mr. Smith Goes to Washington naïve.
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> I recall Allen Drury’s Advise and Consent, wherein an attack on one
> Congressman was ultimately countered with bipartisan rejection. I also
> recall a John Kennedy speech where he declared that both Republicans and
> Democrats were equally patriotic, the differences being in how they did
> things.
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> But I am starting to rant, right? And that will achieve nothing.
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> What I do ask is please look at what is happening with a long lens, looking
> back as well as forward. And think about consequences, mot just results.
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> Again, trying to avoid trigger points, I worry about:
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> *       Temporary or “acting” secretaries of major government agencies
> without congressional approval
> *       The weaponized use of social media
> *       The role of news media
> *       The apparent abdication of the Senate
> *       The unprecedented retention of financial interests by this
> president
> during tenure and its attendant appearance if not reality of conflict with
> the responsibilities of office
> *       The frank and ongoing attacks on voting rights everywhere
> *       And, perhaps most telling, the lack of leadership needed now to
> combat covid-19
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> There is much more, but still trying to avoid conflict.
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> Headed for the bunker now…………………..
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> Gary Thewlis
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