On Sunday, June 30, 2002, at 12:18 AM, Rohit Khare wrote:
> You're all invited to join me for a South Bay Hi-Def spectacle at my
> apartment in Sunnyvale on the Fourth!
So here's the final report on the HD/ID party. As no less than TEN
forkers pointed out, the invitation, while sent on Sunday 6/30, was only
delivered ten days later on 7/9.
It got flagged as spam.
Yes, on a mailing list awash in crap -- and some it is even unsolicited
commercial email, heavens! -- our trusty mailman filters captured and
quarantined just two posts that week, one from me that was > 100K (the
fat articles) and one that was bcc:d (the invite).
Now, it was a little difficult to recalibrate self-esteem, which as you
can imagine was proportional to the two-digit attendance  -- in binary!
According to the George Washington documentary, I almost had as much
alcohol on hand than he did -- Virginia tradition being to copiously
lubricate each voter. Election day was a public festival day, and it
cost poor George an average of SIXTY-FOUR shots of hard liquor PER VOTER
that day...
So, herewith is the prize for most appropriate flame my delayed invite
got:
> 	I unfortunately will have had other plans and thus will
> 	not be able to have made it.  Yes.
>
> 	-faisal
One of our competitors added:
> Wow - I just got this now - I guess that was KnowLate!
And there is no prize for guessing which cold, dark forks emitted these
two plaints:
From Whiny Dwarf:
> Fix your mail server! just a bit late!
And Angry Dwarf:
> God DAAAAAMMMMMNNNNN IIIIITTT! I didn't see your message until now!
> Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!
>
> We would have been there if I had seen the message before. Kuso! (as
> the Japanese would say).
>
> Fuck.
> Fuck.
> Fuck.
> Fuck.
> Fuck.
> Fuck.
Perhaps I should remind the latter gently that it was not in any way his
fault. The universe *was* out to get him!
And finally, here's an object lesson for all ye of little faith to learn
from my sins:
> SpamAssassin rated it spam (barely). Gotta stop
> using those "words and phrases which indicate porn" :-)
Yes, boys and girls, Mr. Assassin, like Mr. Lott, gets very annoyed if
you call the Great American Shrine a... "boob tube"
:-)
Rohit
PS. This is the obscure footnote where I actually hide the bits in this
post. What we just encountered here is that an event-processing system
with a 10-day RTT cannot be used to reliably handle events more often
than once every 20 days. That's why I waited to reply. six bonus points
to anyone who can prove this hunch of mine. Hint: try analyzing the
problem in frequency-domain.
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