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daveytaylor · Kilroy Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 2

I signed up this morning for PS and the "we'll" was spelt correctly with no Japanese characters flying around. However, the headers have changed.

knife.dreamhost.com ([66.33.219.6])

Did a Traceroute and everything seemed fine there and checked out www.dreamhost.com. They list their address as:

DreamHost.com
PO BOX 5479
Huntington Park, CA 90255
USA
FAX: 323-583-9505

No phone number...

Might be worth storing in the favourites for early 2005.

**Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 7:23 am

BrianEnigma

**Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 11:16 am

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Alex Smith · Decorated Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 162

I have a whole load of worthless information that could come in useful in the near future on the email and its origins, if ever you need it.

Although, having just wandered in really to the ARG scene, no doubt you guys have got that all already... Very Happy

I can't wait. Smile

**Posted:** Mon Aug 02, 2004 8:22 pm

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Nightmare Tony

Same here, man. Welcome. We are all waiting with baited breath and anchovy pizzas and trout at the ready....

as a ps, for the movie THE GAME, get it, plain and simple. VERY good movie, lots of twists and turns, you dont know WHERE it's going to go next. half.com is my place for shopping it, but its a movie worth getting....

Edit: Just spellings annoying me. Wishi-san

**Posted:** Tue Aug 03, 2004 12:33 am

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Uh, if you're correcting spelling, 'baited' should be 'bated'. Though it seems most people think it 'baited' according to Google. what is the world coming to?

feel free to delete this once you've corrected properly Wink

**Posted:** Sun Aug 08, 2004 5:38 am

Wishi-san

Although it originally was bated, the verb bate is unused any more really. Baited is in such common usage that it appears in newspapers these days. Languages evolve, we don't use "thou goest to the shops" anymore Wink

I'm sure traditionalists get annoyed by it, but hey!

**Posted:** Sun Aug 08, 2004 7:33 am

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Nightmare Tony

Pedant: I spelled it baited on purpose, it ties in with the anchovy pizza comment right after it. Baited breath and anchovy pizzas. At least the rest is spelled right; half the time I type too darned fast and end up with a bloody mess of a message...

**Posted:** Sun Aug 08, 2004 10:32 am

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Pedant · Guest

If 'bated' is so out-of-date how come more people use it than 'baited' according to Google? Smile

I'm not going to get into a socio-linguistic discussion here, but just think about the image of 'baiting' one's breath... affixing a worm in front of it?!

Tony: congratulations on retrofitting an excuse! One of the best I've heard yet. Wink

**Posted:** Mon Aug 09, 2004 9:04 am

Nightmare Tony

I wouldnt know about it being out of date or things. I simply set my own style in life which is wild and interesting as heck. Trust me, when you are a person who has several amusement park rides in your front yard, you ARE your own style setter Smile

and the fun part is moving all of this from Socal to Missouri...)

**Posted:** Mon Aug 09, 2004 11:24 am

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Eck · Boot Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 33

Hey guys, new to the scene but already ridiculously addicted (thank you ilovebees), but I've signed up for syzygy, and my email was similar to yours. I had the wrong character in "we'll" as well as having slightly different headers than the rest of you. Im not sure if this is important, just pointing it out.

Received: from spork.dreamhost.com ([66.33.219.4])
by s-mail.com with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #3)
id 1Bx9Ms-00028h-00
for youngmeccaSPLATs-mail.com; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 19:11:34 +0000
Received: by spork.dreamhost.com (Postfix, from userid 65534)
id D048D11DC5F; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:11:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: "curiousSPLATprojectsyzygy.com"
To: youngmeccaSPLATs-mail.com
Subject: Curiouser and curiouser
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Message-Id: <20040817191132.D048D11DC5F@spork.dreamhost.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:11:32 -0700 (PDT)

Spork.dreamhost.com eh? Seems that they have a cutlery obsession forming...

Edit: Splatted the email addresses - Wishi-san

**Posted:** Tue Aug 17, 2004 7:01 pm

Giskard

**Posted:** Tue Aug 17, 2004 7:22 pm

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**Posted:** Wed Aug 18, 2004 2:47 am

Fi · Unfettered Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 444 Location: London

Hi Eck, and welcome!

Just a quick note to say that you really shouldn't post your full e-mail address on these pages. Ideally delete it altogether (privacy 'n' all that!), but if you want to post it then replace the @ with the word 'at', or change the formatting in some other way - eg. flea dot sick @ myisp dot com.

This is because bots roam around the net looking for email addresses which they can inundate with offers of cheap \/14gra and ppeeeniss enlargements Wink

Fi

P.S - Sporks rock! Useful /and/ amusingly named - what more could you want out of an implement?!

**Posted:** Wed Aug 18, 2004 8:23 am

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Spork anyone?

**Posted:** Wed Aug 18, 2004 10:10 am

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lol.

*takes a spork*

Thanks.

But seriously, don't think too much about the character thing. Apostrophes are a nightmare on the internet, as their character code in Unicode are special. So if your browser is reading the email and encoding it incorrectly, you will run into funny chinese or kanji characters. It's simply your browser trying to be too smart. I run into this all the time, especially if I visit a few chinese websites and the browser sorta goes into "chinese encoding" mode.

**Posted:** Wed Aug 18, 2004 3:18 pm

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