[Users] WG: [Bug 3252] smtp authentication at smtp server of GMX fails - permanent error - no sending

[Pierre Fortin]

On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 09:08:20 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote:

>On Friday 22 August 2014 07:43:39 Pierre Fortin did opine

>>    "Until you've found AND fixed a problem,
>>     what you discount will likely be the source."
>> 
>> That was my way of saying the most difficult problems usually have a
>> very simple/subtle cause which is/was too "unlikely" to take
>> seriously... :) :)


>A lesson yet to be learned by many here from what I read as it goes by.
>
>Example, straight out of the School of Hard Knocks:
>
>One of those "its so obvious nobody would be dumb enough" to make that 
>error, so you spend too much time dancing around it.  Like the time I
>had just put fresh batteries in all the news sets mikes, went live for
>the noon show and one mike was obviously sick. Fresh batteries was SOP
>around the 1st of the month at my tv station.  I spent 15 minutes after
>the show fooling around with the board thinking a channel had gone
>south.  Turns out a brand new alkaline battery was only making .8
>volts.  I took to carrying the dvm with me when replacing batteries
>after that.
>
>Guess who broke the cellophane wrapper on that pack of batteries?  Moi. 
>Duh.  :(
>
>Cheers, Gene Heskett

Agreed...  DVM is always used here... after _3_ "fresh" sets...   :)

I first wrote that .sig after a number of problems turned out to be:

- "impossible -- it's been working for 10 years" -- incorrectly wired
  from day one; magnetic latch could not be re-enabled.
- "no way! We just ran diagnostics on everything..." -- the tech was blown
  away after finding every ribbon cable was bad after his tests
- "it has to be true or false" -- not when lt, le, eq, ge, gt exist 

and my list can go on and on; but this is OT...  though it doesn't hurt
to revisit the concept...  :)  :)

Pierre

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