 |
 |
Your roving reporter has been to the village to investigate the rash of returned messages suffered by list members and most of them with' PD village' in the subject line.Naturally his first port of call was the Parkinson Arms where over a frothing pint of Bard's bitter he listened to the latest gossip for which the 'On Bar'is renowned.Well as you know computers are discouraged in the village but lots of people have them just like people used to have forbidden radios in occcupied Europe during the second World war.Everybody knows that they have them because they don't bother to draw the curtains(drapes) and post midnight or early morning warm glows can often be seen through the pretty little cottage windows.Well apparently one of the members of the management committe was getting really annoyed about recent internet publicity and got his son 'Nerdy Ned' who is a computer wizard to design a sort of virus which would interfere with any PD village E-mail.Nerdy Ned dreamed up an electronic version of the BSE (mad cow) bug which is not even a virus but a Prion( a sort of a bit of a protein which has gone wrong)and this apparently has been fairly effective in interfering with communications;however counter intelligence is already believed to have found an antidote.Mind you this is all gossip and you don't have to believe a word of it.Monica Burke suggested that voodoo might be the cause- unlikely in the UK but it could be witchraft which was very common in this part of England with lots of burning at the stake.On this happy note I will dispatch this E mail on my palm top cleverly concealed in within a hollowed out book and cunningly use the heading 'village' instead of PD village which will hopefully outwit the Prion and enable my readers to enjoy the latest GOSSIP. 'Another pint of Bard, please Millie' PS Did anyone receive the original message? This is a resend after receiving today a non- delivery report similar to that reported by others--'unable to convert to an SMTP report.