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yakalskovich) wrote2005-11-08 06:14 pm
yakalskovich) wrote2005-11-08 06:14 pm
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Okay, so Sphinx was being Audrey at me in a mail, not on purpose at first, I think (unless she meant to startle me out of something, which is quite possible, knowing Sphinx), so I was Andras back at her.
Audrey's not quite a pup, she's more like an honest-to-god hoax, and it's not really Sphinx who's Audrey; Sphinx is mostly Heinz, and her husband is Audrey. It's a bit complicated. We tend to be like that; I always say Sphinx is worse than me, don't I?
The third incarnation of Lajos had lived on her hoaxy web site (MM!Lajos is the fourth), so I didn't think Andras would be too-far fetched a pup to be back at her. Unlike Sooty or one of the lesser Milli!pups, Andras already had a mail address because, SN => mail address @aim.com
So far, so funny.
OK, so Audrey and Andras converse for a bit by mail between aim.com and gmx.de last night. Now I was just checking my email by webmail interface from work as I am wont to do in moments of lull, and for the first time tried to include Andras's address because there might be a reply from Audrey, right?
Only to find that I can't log into mail with that SN from work. AOL sees me coming in with a German-language IE6 from a .de domain, and decides I'm German (which I normally am, but Andras definitely isn't) and sends me to their German language version where a Screen Name is a 'Webname' and so on.
And the mail interface declares, in German, that it's never heard of anybody called 'pickshurperfect'.
Course they haven't, because Andras's address is @aim.com, not @aim.de or @aol.de or whichever domain the German localised version uses for the mail addresses. And because AOL is being so fucking clever, they automatically and irrevocably redirect me to the German language site they think I should be wanting to use, complete with wrong top level domain.
So if Audrey replied to Andras, I can only see that at home, where Firefox and Trillian prevent such AOL induced bullshit from happening. That, however, is not what one uses a web-based email address for.
Audrey's not quite a pup, she's more like an honest-to-god hoax, and it's not really Sphinx who's Audrey; Sphinx is mostly Heinz, and her husband is Audrey. It's a bit complicated. We tend to be like that; I always say Sphinx is worse than me, don't I?
The third incarnation of Lajos had lived on her hoaxy web site (MM!Lajos is the fourth), so I didn't think Andras would be too-far fetched a pup to be back at her. Unlike Sooty or one of the lesser Milli!pups, Andras already had a mail address because, SN => mail address @aim.com
So far, so funny.
OK, so Audrey and Andras converse for a bit by mail between aim.com and gmx.de last night. Now I was just checking my email by webmail interface from work as I am wont to do in moments of lull, and for the first time tried to include Andras's address because there might be a reply from Audrey, right?
Only to find that I can't log into mail with that SN from work. AOL sees me coming in with a German-language IE6 from a .de domain, and decides I'm German (which I normally am, but Andras definitely isn't) and sends me to their German language version where a Screen Name is a 'Webname' and so on.
And the mail interface declares, in German, that it's never heard of anybody called 'pickshurperfect'.
Course they haven't, because Andras's address is @aim.com, not @aim.de or @aol.de or whichever domain the German localised version uses for the mail addresses. And because AOL is being so fucking clever, they automatically and irrevocably redirect me to the German language site they think I should be wanting to use, complete with wrong top level domain.
So if Audrey replied to Andras, I can only see that at home, where Firefox and Trillian prevent such AOL induced bullshit from happening. That, however, is not what one uses a web-based email address for.