Mostly about my amusement
Woo hoo, I see that WordPress 2.6-RC1 came with today’s SVN updates.
So far it looks and feels like 2.5.1 with some tweaks. The Google Gears portion, better plug-in management, and now arranging widgets works. When it is released as 2.6 I’ll upgrade this blog.
I’ll also get ready for the cries of support forum users who insist 2.5.1 get upgraded and maintained.
It’s been reported that Tony Snow passed away. I’m very sorry for his family and friends; I did not agree with his White House work but he was always lively and often entertaining.
I use Google Reader to follow blogs and one of the RSS feeds I have is from Slashdot. A few days ago they had a posting called Gmail, SPF, and Broken Email Forwarding? which was a topic I was interested in.
I use a Blackberry for e-mail and I gave up I using SPF for my domain. It just could not work when legitimate e-mail came from another set of unknown servers. The work around is much more complicated than SPF.
So I went to that page looking to see if anyone had anything useful to contribute.
It was Slashdot at it’s finest. The most useful comment was a comment about RFC 2606.
Please stop using mydomain.com and other such nonsense. Example.com is reserved by RFC 2606 [ietf.org] for use as a…wait for it…example domain name. Please make a habit of using it instead of whatever name strikes your fancy, as it is probably in use by real people.
Followed by
For God’s sake. It’s just text! RFC 2606 doesn’t specify what you’re allowed to write in a text message.
I didn’t need to read much more than that. I stopped visiting Slashdot in my browser a long time ago, time to clean up my RSS feeds.
