Local government - neah, what's up doc?

I logged on to our local government website to see if I could pay a
parking fine online. Didn't look like it, but there was a page that
said:

> Car Parking

> Name: Calvin Baylis, Car Parks Manager (admin)
> Telephone: 01903 xxx xxx
> Email: car.parks@arun.gov.uk
>
> If any of the details shown above are incorrect,
> please email the Strategy Unit. Thank you.

The email to car.parks@arun.gov.uk bounced - not found in address book.

So like a good boy, I emailed the address given for the Strategy Unit,
strategy@arun.gov.uk

You guessed already, dincha:

> User strategy (strategy@arun.gov.uk) not listed
> in public Name & Address Book

but the best part, tucked away there in the headers, is:

> Received: from DAFFY-DUCK.arun.gov.uk ([192.168.1.11])
> by pegasus.arun.gov.uk (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.8)

DAFFY-DUCK? More like Mickey Mouse.

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Pd

> DAFFY-DUCK? More like Mickey Mouse.

Sommet a bit odd going on with their mail server it seems! As for the Daffy
Duck, looks a bit like techys trying to be funny :S

On 7/3/04 11:39 am, in article c2f1l6$1spc38$1@ID-148468.news.uni-berlin.de,
"dirtycow" <feeny@genie.co.uk> wrote:

>> DAFFY-DUCK? More like Mickey Mouse.
>
> Sommet a bit odd going on with their mail server it seems! As for the Daffy
> Duck, looks a bit like techys trying to be funny :S

It's pretty normal to name computers after cartoon characters etc, but what
marks them out as a bit of a Mickey Mouse outfit is using Lotus Notes for
email.

Cheers,

Chris

dirtycow wrote:
>>DAFFY-DUCK? More like Mickey Mouse.
> Sommet a bit odd going on with their mail server it seems! As for the Daffy
> Duck, looks a bit like techys trying to be funny :S

At my old Uni - Surrey - in the ee department the printers were named
after artists, and the machines were named after sci-fi characters.

however when they got some new systems in and named one
kyle.ee.surrey.ac.uk, I thought they had named them in honour of
prominent past students, but when cartman. stan. ahd chef. appeared I
knew better.

kt.

On 7/3/04 1:03 pm, in article c2f6ir$1t3i1o$1@ID-142568.news.uni-berlin.de,
"X Kyle M Thompson" <spam@spamnotspam.tk> wrote:

> dirtycow wrote:
>>> DAFFY-DUCK? More like Mickey Mouse.
>> Sommet a bit odd going on with their mail server it seems! As for the Daffy
>> Duck, looks a bit like techys trying to be funny :S
>
> At my old Uni - Surrey - in the ee department the printers were named
> after artists, and the machines were named after sci-fi characters.

Our current scheme is British monarchs, which gives scope for plenty of
unfunny jokes. (Charles runs headless, for instance.)

Cheers,

Chris

Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> wrote:

> On 7/3/04 11:39 am, in article c2f1l6$1spc38$1@ID-148468.news.uni-berlin.de,
> "dirtycow" <feeny@genie.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >> DAFFY-DUCK? More like Mickey Mouse.
> >
> > Sommet a bit odd going on with their mail server it seems! As for the Daffy
> > Duck, looks a bit like techys trying to be funny :S
>
> It's pretty normal to name computers after cartoon characters etc, but what
> marks them out as a bit of a Mickey Mouse outfit is using Lotus Notes for
> email.
>
hehe i can think of a large company that uses lotus notes for e mail,
and uses office to run its own very poor quality apps/scripts, also to
save or transufure data the program will reformat the floppy.....acakic
doesn't even come close...
> Cheers,
>
> Chris

roger