Is it just me or does this seem like a badly thought out one? I’m not questioning its feasibility or anything - throw a billion people at any venture and it is bound to be a success or rather won’t be a miserable failure. But, given how crowded our trains are, and how unsafe they feel at most times, I wonder how many people would dare withdrawing any amount of money in full view of a hundred people with whom they’d have to spend the next few hours / days. The other ATMs are different as one isn’t obliged to stick around the ATM and with the people around the ATM.

My evil mind already has a game to spook the users. Hang around these ATMs, the moment somebody uses it, follow them back and note down their seat numbers. On a 48 hour train, its bound to give them a couple of sleepless nights!

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Just when I thought I was having a good start to the week -

Jaidev:

There is some custom setting on your email client which is adding “|” characters and makes it pretty hard to follow the history of email. See below. Would appreciate if we can do something there.

Thanks
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I spent a good amount of time thinking what my response should be -

• google.com/search?q=email+quoting
• Don’t ****in read it, you inconsequential CC recipient

Eventually I chose discretion over valour and decided to post it here instead. Somebody in this industry has got to figure out what to do with pointy haireds‘ time.

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Or atleast that’s what I make of this -

[16:08:18 jaidev@~]$ host -t mx hotmail.com
hotmail.com mail is handled by 5 mx1.hotmail.com.
hotmail.com mail is handled by 5 mx2.hotmail.com.
hotmail.com mail is handled by 5 mx3.hotmail.com.
hotmail.com mail is handled by 5 mx4.hotmail.com.
[16:08:21 jaidev@~]$ telnet mx4.hotmail.com 25
Trying 65.54.244.104…
Connected to mx4.hotmail.com.
Escape character is ‘^]’.
220 bay0-mc4-f19.bay0.hotmail.com Sending unsolicited commercial or bulk e-mail to Microsoft’s computer network is prohibited. Other restrictions are found at http://privacy.msn.com/Anti-spam/. Violations will result in use of equipment located in California and other states. Fri, 2 Feb 2007 02:37:54 -0800

And we thought they couldn’t innovate. The threat to use equipment located in California might just be the greatest innovation since electricity.

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Ever been frustrated by colleagues making a mess of quoting emails in a thread? Ever worried for the people who write in pink, red or blue? Ever cursed someone who sent a HTML email? Ever spent hours figuring out who said what in a conversation?

Well, don’t worry anymore. I’ve decided to step up to curb the madness. Next time someone does that, point them to the official email HOWTO. In fact I suggest you preempt the nonsense by posting a print out on their workspaces!

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