Today was the student of the month breakfast at my daughter’s school. We got a letter about 2 weeks ago letting us know that she was the student of the month. So this morning I got to have a cup of coffee in the school library. They also had some danish and some fruit. Now when I think of breakfast I think of my old Catalink Direct/Elcom days when the sales team would have there monthly meetings. They would bring in the whole spread…eggs, bacon, sausage and other breakfast stuff and of course the omelet station with cook. I was sort of hoping for that this morning..but it was the PTO who brought the breakfast so no omelet station ….

In other news easter is just around the corner and that means spring is here. I have to get out to the back yard and replace 3 fence posts and 2 1/2 fence panels before the summer party season starts. We are going to be having the usual 3 parties on Memorial day, 4th of July and Labor day weekends. This summer is looking like it’s going to be a busy one. My mom is throwing her self a 70th birthday party in June..for gifts she wants you to make a donation to something (I don’t remember what right now). Going up there for it will probably be my only trip to Bath this summer. My 20th High School reunion is this summer but it’s scheduled for the same weekend of the La Vigna Picnic in July so I won’t be making that.

In the work world I am going to finish off the move from the old NT4 network to the 2003 Active Directory network this weekend by going to the Harrisburg office to migrate all the desktop machines over and move all the data from the old server to the new server that is already in
place.

So that’s all for now…

Listening to: Hanging On The Telephone – Blondie – The Best Of Blondie

Last month my uncle got the FiOS Internet service from Verizon and with it a Verizon E-mail address. So yesterday he sent me an E-mail and when I sent my reply to him I got the following failure notice:

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mailhost.bilancio.org. I’m afraid I wasn’t able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I’ve given up. Sorry it didn’t work out.

xxxxxxxxxx@verizon.net:
Connected to 206.46.232.11 but sender was rejected.
Remote host said: 550 You are not allowed to send mail:sv22pub.verizon.net

At first I thought that my IP address for my mail server was on an RBL, but after some checking I found that wasn’t so. So then I went out and found someone else with a Verizon E-mail address. Again I was unable to send to him with my bilancio.org address, but if I sent something from my @lguip.org address it went through. I was also able to send E-mail to my uncle with that address as well. …till this morning now I can’t even send him E-mail with the lugip.org address.

I called Verizons Abuse number and the recording told me to go to www.verizon.com/whitelist and fill out the form. After Googling this problem I found that Verizon has been blocking E-mail from domains from outside the US since the beginning of 2005, but that shouldn’t effect me since my domain is hosted here in the US.

So I have filled out the whitelist form so now the wait is on to see how long it will take for Verizon to let mail in from my domains. This wouldn’t bother me to much but my parents have bilancio.org addresses and I am just waiting till my dad calls me to tell me that he can’t get mail to his brother in-law or his sister. We are a very spread out family and E-mail is a way of life for us.

So if you have a Verizon account please go to http://www.verizon.com/whitelist and fill out the members form and request bilanco.org, lugip.org and haverling.org be add to the domains that can send mail to Verizon users…..
Listening to: Come Talk To Me – Peter Gabriel – Secret World Live (CD 1)

UPDATE 4/7/06:

Got an E-mail from Verizon last night:

Subject: RE: Whitelist Request for IP Address 66.89.234.157

Thank you for contacting Verizon Online Security.

After a thorough investigation of your issue, Verizon Online Security has determined that normal e-mail delivery should be restored within 72 hrs.

Sincerely,

Verizon Online Security

http://www2.verizon.net/policies

abuse@verizon.net

We will see if it’s fixed by Monday night…..