[Icon-tech] Problem subscribing to rbd list solved

[Larry Skutchan]

Amy, you could verify if it is your provider eating the messages by sending one to yourself with a blank subject and body. It might be a good thing to know.


-----Original Message-----
From: icon-tech-bounces at mulcahy.ws [mailto:icon-tech-bounces at mulcahy.ws] On Behalf Of Amy Ruell
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 4:26 PM
To: john at valar.com; 'Icon technical discussions.'
Subject: RE: [Icon-tech] Problem subscribing to rbd list solved

Hi,
I'm using outlook 2003 and have sent many other messages without subjects
both before and after this problem.


-----Original Message-----
From: icon-tech-bounces at mulcahy.ws [mailto:icon-tech-bounces at mulcahy.ws] On
Behalf Of John Esak
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 4:07 PM
To: 'Icon technical discussions.'
Subject: RE: [Icon-tech] Problem subscribing to rbd list solved


It's helpful in that it lowers my opinion of Comcast. They should not be
disallowing your email because it does not have a subject. That is not a
prerequisite for handling email. Nowhere in any spec, RFC, the memories of 5
people I've asked (and they are all as old as me, and therefore old enough
to remember way back to the early 70's or thereabouts...) is there any
requirement that an email message needs some text in the subject field.  If
it is true that Comcast is arbitrarily saying you need some, they should
fire the person or people who made that decision. If it is true... all I can
say is there is too much of this type of thing going on at small ISP's, and
now you are saying that an enormous tier one carrier is also prone to such
inappropriate actions regarding infra-structure that they have no right to
change without following the very specific and long-lived conventions for
doing so. Shame on them.

Amy, although this obviously appeared to fix your problem, I would actually
be very surprised if Comcast has adopted such a rule.  Could it be you are
using a client that requires something in the subject.  Can you try using
Outlook Express to send a piece of email and see if it is also constrained
by this "must have a subject" policy?  I didn't read any more in this thread
than your note.  What program are you using to write and send the message?
Even if it is just a piece of bad programming in their own client, it is
still stupid.

Imagine if all their servers really balked at sending email without
subjects. They would not be relaying millions and millions of messages
daily.  That's why it is a little hard to believe, and I'm hoping you have a
way around this. Could it be you were in the Icon/BP and sent this mail.
You are talking about some kind of certification registration or something.
Was it for NLS?

John



> -----Original Message-----
> From: icon-tech-bounces at mulcahy.ws
> [mailto:icon-tech-bounces at mulcahy.ws] On Behalf Of Amy Ruell
> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 11:54 AM
> To: 'Icon technical discussions.'
> Subject: [Icon-tech] Problem subscribing to rbd list solved
>
> Hello all,
> Thanks to Ken Perry, I solved the problem. Apparently,
> Comcast would not
> send out the message until I put something in the subject
> line, although I
> have posted messages in the past without doing so.
>
> Hope this is helpful to someone.
> Amy
>
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