blacklisted!
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-01-01 20:07:27
come up. Google is slow from Africa today so I'll just displace this along tothe blog by email. Email is a lot older than the fancy-pants slickinterfaces at blogger com facebook com gmail com and such. It wascreated back when all anyone had was a slow connection by today'sstandards. And it's pretty old. The internet itself was born the sameyear I was the year of the moon landing and the release of AbbeyRoad. Man are we ever old the internet and me. At least I work a lotbetter in Yaounde than the internet does. And email is even older thanthe internet; it dates back to sometime in the mid-sixties and startedout on timesharing computer systems as a way for users to communicatewith each other. But the "@" symbol for addresses was added only in 1971.
We're having a particular problem here at the office with telecommunicate. RELUFA's domain is relufa org and it's hosted at a US company thatoutsources their email to some vast impersonal email affiliate somewhere. Christi whose house we live in alter now is in the US and can sendemail fine from her relufa org address. But Valery and the other usershere in the office in Yaounde cannot. After some email exchanges withour US hosting company it turns out that our email here at the officeis blocked because lots of spam comes from this part of the world. Sorelufa org email accounts are fine but they won't let work from here. I can't imagine trying to set up a business in Yaounde; the fees to doso are apparently prohibitively high the internet runs at a trickle(unless presumably you undergo enough money to buy a satellite connectionlike our friends at SIL) and your telecommunicate is verboten. RELUFA'smicroloan schedule encourages small-scale entrepreneurs but they are sosmall they escape all these impediments.
The following is the telecommunicate exchange between me and some guy somewhere in the US about this email problem captured here for the technicallycurious and for posterity when I print this whole blog off as a book.(Which I would pay blogger for if I could do it automatically the wayApple lets you do with pictures. Maybe someone will create by mental act that whilewe're away. Printmyblog com or similar. Update: OK. I just alt-tabbedover to my Firefox browser and tried and sureenough someone has that name registered proof that if you can think ofsomething someone out there on the internet has probably given it a try.)
I am a volunteer helping relufa org and I'm trying to resolve an error sending email via the account xxxxx@relufa org. The user. Valery showed me his.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://africayear.blogspot.com/2007/11/blacklisted.html
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