Weirdarse email bounce today…

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at byron.aussiehosts.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<gipbexd@yahoo.com>:
67.28.114.36 failed after I sent the message.
Remote host said: 554 delivery error: dd This user doesn't have a yahoo.com account (gipbexd@yahoo.com) [0] - mta193.mail.dcn.yahoo.com

<gipbexd@yahoo.com>:
64.156.215.8 failed after I sent the message.
Remote host said: 554 delivery error: dd This user doesn't have a yahoo.com account (gipbexd@yahoo.com) [0] - mta283.mail.scd.yahoo.com

<gipbexd@yahoo.com>:
64.157.4.78 failed after I sent the message.
Remote host said: 554 delivery error: dd This user doesn't have a yahoo.com account (gipbexd@yahoo.com) [0] - mta149.mail.sc5.yahoo.com

<gipbexd@yahoo.com>:
64.156.215.8 failed after I sent the message.
Remote host said: 554 delivery error: dd This user doesn't have a yahoo.com account (gipbexd@yahoo.com) [0] - mta314.mail.scd.yahoo.com

<gipbexd@yahoo.com>:
67.28.113.11 failed after I sent the message.
Remote host said: 554 delivery error: dd This user doesn't have a yahoo.com account (gipbexd@yahoo.com) [0] - mta190.mail.re2.yahoo.com

Why is this so weird? Well because neither myself nor the recipient are on yahoo.com, no way did I address the mail to “gipbexd”, and thirdly, the recipient told me she received four copies of the mail anyway.

I should add that this was sent via Squirrelmail webmail, so it’s not like my Outlook got a virus…

Wi-erd.

Ever wondered what the SysRq key does? Turns out it’s a kind of convoluted programmable key that hardcore programmers can commandeer. From the sounds of it’s it’s just as “programmable” and useful as the old function keys were on the Commodore 64 and Vic-20… eg not very much at all.

There’s also a less geeky explanation from the Straight Dope people, which goes through some of the other lesser-used keys too, including the mysterious Scroll Lock, which does have a modern use, at least in Excel, and Break, which when pressed with Ctrl will amongst other things stop execution in the VB IDE or batch files in DOS the command prompt.

Me, I wish the Insert key could be abolished. I don’t think I know of a more annoying toggle.