Good news...

[chouyu_31]

I am finally able to tell people about what I have been working on in the last 5+ months.

I built the back end of Affini, A Network Of TrustAside from incoming and outgoing SMTP, and a small Perl daemon, I built everything that handles email at Affini. The "Inbox" and "Queue" on the site both query my backend. The Butlers that hit your mailboxes

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[the_eyu]

Interesting idea, but I'm not sure that it'll be actually useful. For now, the web interface is far too complicated/confusing. It doesn't seem to clearly explain what it does, either. I'll take another look later when the site isn't undergoing nightly maintenance.

[the_eyu]

Okay, the points thing is probably the most confusing thing. The other parts make more sense now. Seems like a lot of trouble though. At least with a server running TMDA, addresses on outgoing mail are added to a whitelist so you don't have to do it yourself.

Hmm, and:

: host 216.218.219.85[216.218.219.85] said: 553 user is
not local (in reply to RCPT TO command)

Where USERNAME is my username.

[chouyu_31]

Ahh, so you are user number 4 in the production database. *laugh* I just got an email asking about how people found Affini so quick.

Note that it is currently beta. We started integrating on Monday, and I only started working on the Butler (after leaving it alone for nearly a month) on Monday as well. We have turned the firewall back on because apparently it is not quite ready for use yet.

We have various auto-whitelisting methods up our sleeves that are implemented, but don't yet have interfaces.

Re: points
Yeah, a point is a penny. I told them from the start that they shouldn't fuck around with points, they should just stick with money, as there is a 1-to-1 correspondance anyways. There was a good argument against only having money three months ago, but I can't for the life of me remember.

[chouyu_31]

If maintenance were to happen on a regular basis, when would be a better time than nightly?

[etrepum]

It's too bad the webserver can't handle the readers of your livejournal ;)

[chouyu_31]

No, we turned on the firewall because we're going to be killing and restarting services over the next few days.

[etrepum]

bah, there should at least be a page or two that has the usual marketspeak about what you guys are up to that doesn't need to be blackholed when you're fiddling with the service

[chouyu_31]

Yeah, well this was a "silent release". No press or anything, just people spreading the word while we get the kinks worked out.

The real release is, I believe, Sunday, but we only put the software on the machines this afternoon (I've been testing it on other machines all week).

[blasphemina]

I just now realized why I rarely respond to your posts.

I have know Idea what in the all-mighty fuck you're talking about.

Always way over my head :)

Ummm, hurray for doing that thing you did with the protocols and processors. *ha!*

Sorry I'm such a tardo :P

[chouyu_31]

It's cool. I didn't want you to be my friend because you can understand this facet of what I do; I want you to be my friend because, quite simply, I like who you are and what you do. I like how you treat people, express your perspective on the world, and handle yourself in situations that aren't going your way.

Even more simply; you fucking rock.

[blasphemina]

Fucking hell-damn-ass awesome yerself! You always say just the right thing to people to make them smile. I'm so glad that even though you live a bajillion miles away that we're friends. *hugs!!!* Continue rocking my face off!

[chouyu_31]

Nah, sometimes I shit all over people; but those are people I don't like.

And as for rocking your face off, I'll stop rocking so hard; I like your face and want you to keep it! Keep the face...