Yay! I’m truly an Aussie, as I got 20/20.
I reckon’ that most city slickers won’t have heard #10. Of course, the real phrase is “Come behind!”, and the alternate is “Get away back!”
My only hassle is that it should be smartarses.com (For all of my overseas readers, that’s how we pronounce the word. Arrrrse. Long R.).
As a latecomer to Podcasting, I’ve missed a whole lot of stuff from the ABC’s excellent range of Radio National podcasts. And I’ve managed to download most of the ‘casts from the feeds that I have subscribed to, but I thought I might see what other stuff is still on the server.
Luckily, the ABC use an easy to decode system for naming most of their podcasts. For instance, “All in the Mind”, a show about Psychology and the Mind, is stored in files like:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/mind_20051231.mp3
The first bit stays the same, and the number is just yyyymmdd. Thus, even though the feed only lists the last 4 programs, the server seems to have the last 9. Beyond that, I just get file not found errors.
Now the only trick is to see if using wget will mean that I can import them into iTunes, and have them show up as Podcasts, including all of the data. Hopefully that is all coded into the ID3 tags, but I’ll post the results.
(This is a copy of the support request I sent through to MyDomain.com minutes ago)
Dear MyDomain.com,
I have noticed that emails sent through the email forwarding system do not always arrive, and often do not arrive promptly.
Whilst the problem doesn’t seem to be occuring right now, earlier today I sent a test email, and it still has not arrived. I sent it at 2:14 pm (+1030 6 Feb 2006). It is now 6:18pm.
My partner also has a different domain registered with you, and has noticed that a large amount of email is not delivered, or is delivered late. In some cases, up to a week late.
The error in question for one particular email was:
After 3 days the following message could not be delivered to user@domain.com at host domain.com. The last attempt to send this message failed because no answer was returned by a DNS.
(Obviously, user@domain.com is replaced by a valid username and domain).
This has occurred from mutliple senders, and is unnacceptable. The domains registered are used for business purposes, and not being able to have prompt delivery causes lost business.
I moved my domain registration to mydomain.com because I thought they were a reliable service; I may reconsider renewing my domain (and other domains I am involved with) unless service provision improves.
You FAQ page 873 is clearly out of date - there are problems with your servers at some point. Whether it is a DNS issue, or a mail forwarding issue, it is impacting on your providing of a service.
This email requires a reply.
Regards,
Matthew Schinckel
matt@schinckel.net
(or matt.schinckel@gmail.com if the forwarding service is down again).
