The Brad Hole

Every now and then, I get a piece of e-mail that makes me question the educational system in America. A new entry for my collection arrived today:

From: xxxx@aol.com
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:53:12 EST
Subject: Won't Work
X-Mailer: Thunderbird - Mac OS X sub 25

For some reason it said "I do not have enough access priveliges".I think it's because I'm sign on my Mac as a student, what to do


I have two small requests for anyone wishing to e-mail me.

1. Use a spellchecker. (It'd be great if you'd use a grammar checker too, but that's a pipe dream.)

2. Let me know what the hell you're talking about, otherwise I'll gladly ignore you or (as this case demonstrates) mock you in public. :-)

Edit: OK, I have a third request. If you do e-mail me, and you're not in my address book, you pretty much have to use a descriptive subject title (perhaps that contains the game name) or you run a pretty good risk of being trapped in my spam filter, where I'll never see the message. According to the pobox filter reports, I average roughly 1000-1500 e-mails a day (depending on virus outbreaks) and of those only 70-100 are typically non-spam. (My e-mail address, having made it in the MAME readme and thus on Usenet and on the web, is a big red target.) I'm willing to sacrifice a few random e-mails from strangers who don't label the messages properly. :-)