Posterous

a blog by Brie Gordon

Two complaints about Google and a note on speedy Googlebots.

I have two bones to pick with Google this morning.

First: gMail is not fully RFC822-compliant. I should be able to send mail to myself in this format:

brie@[127.0.0.1]

(Where 127.0.0.1 is the public IP) however Google provides you with a lovely error message when you try to do that. See photo.
There is an awesome RFC822 address parser here that shows that email addresses of this type are acceptable:
http://www.mythic-beasts.com/~pdw/cgi-bin/emailvalidate

The RFC itself is available here: http://www.unixsysadmin.org/documents/

Second:
The (second) biggest gripe about Google Wave is how lonely it is. Well, for those of us with a few friends on Google Wave, it would be nice to get an email (or some other note) when there has been a reply to a wave. I have no way of knowing if someone got back to me short of logging in.

Note: Lots of people complain that Google takes forever to crawl their site. I registered unixsysadmin.org on the 15th (4 days ago) and several little Googlebots have been by (I set up some PHP in my Error Document so that I am notified by email every time they look for the robots.txt file I've been too lazy to set up and don't see it) already. Interesting. My best guess on why is the nature of the domain name. unixsysadmin.org probably sounds like an important site to Google.

That's all for now, assuming you got this far. :-).

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