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PantsGoblin
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 4:37 am Reply with quote
Ugh, this really made me angry. I spent an hour writing a letter to Ryoko Shintani, but the email address you guys gave was apparently invalid. Here's what the email I recieved back said:

Quote:
*** ATTENTION ***

Your e-mail is being returned to you because there was a problem with its
delivery. The address which was undeliverable is listed in the section
labeled: "----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----".

The reason your mail is being returned to you is listed in the section
labeled: "----- Transcript of Session Follows -----".

The line beginning with "<<<" describes the specific reason your e-mail could
not be delivered. The next line contains a second error message which is a
general translation for other e-mail servers.

Please direct further questions regarding this message to the e-mail
administrator or Postmaster at that destination.

--AOL Postmaster



----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<[email protected]>

----- Transcript of session follows -----
<[email protected]>... Deferred: Connection timed out with konimatsu.com.
Message could not be delivered for 3 hours
Message will be deleted from queue


Final-Recipient: RFC822; [email protected]
Action: failed
Status: 4.4.7
Remote-MTA: DNS; konimatsu.com
Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 07:04:00 -0500 (EST)


So, can you guys please take her email address off of her profile?
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abunai
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 5:13 am Reply with quote
PantsGoblin wrote:
Ugh, this really made me angry. I spent an hour writing a letter to Ryoko Shintani, but the email address you guys gave was apparently invalid. Here's what the email I recieved back said:

Quote:

(snip)
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<[email protected]>

----- Transcript of session follows -----
<[email protected]>... Deferred: Connection timed out with konimatsu.com.
(snip)


So, can you guys please take her email address off of her profile?

That looks like a connectivity issue (there's a lot of that on the 'net recently), not a problem with the e-mail address. There is no reason to believe that an error exists in the address we have. Try again, and if that doesn't succeed, try sending a (polite and avoiding phrases like "I'm so angry") query to the [email protected].

- abunai
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PantsGoblin
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 5:25 am Reply with quote
Sorry, I didn't make it that clear and I should have, but my anger was directed more at the fact that I can't get the letter I wrote back, rather than me thinking you guys had an invalid email address. I should have specified, sorry. Now to write that letter again... this time I'll save it before I send it.

Edit: Boy am I an idiot, its right there in the "sent mail" section. Guess there was no reason for me to get angry in the first place Anime smile + sweatdrop .
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dormcat
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 6:31 am Reply with quote
I'm afraid that konimatsu.com has been offline -- and hijacked. It's a "search" site now.

I've removed the email address in her entry.

By the way, did you write to her in English or Japanese?
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PantsGoblin
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 11:00 am Reply with quote
Oh, I wrote to her in English, but even though she may have not understood alot of it I was hoping she would at least find some interest in my email over others as speaking English is considered cool in Japan. I know that she does speak some English though.
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dormcat
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 11:20 am Reply with quote
PantsGoblin wrote:
I wrote to her in English

FYI: I don't know about her, but most Japanese fora and bulletin boards (e.g. most fora on 2ch and those message boards on official sites of persons or companies) do not welcome foreign languages, similar to ANN's "proper English" policy. Just a little reminder.
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Shiroi Hane
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 3:08 pm Reply with quote
It's possible to check that an email address is accepting mail before sending using the dnsreport site:

http://www.dnsreport.com/

In this case:

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E-mail Tester results for [email protected]
Generated by www.DNSstuff.com

Getting MX record for konimatsu.com (from local DNS server, may be cached)... There is no MX record for konimatsu.com! That's bad.
Checking for an A record... Got it!

Host Preference IP(s) [Country]
konimatsu.com 0 204.251.15.171 [US]

Trying to connect to all mailservers:

konimatsu.com - 204.251.15.171 [Could not connect: Could not connect to mail server (timed out).]
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