{"id":181,"date":"2007-12-04T03:18:19","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T02:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/2007\/12\/i-only-want-one-recipient-dammit\/"},"modified":"2007-12-04T03:19:57","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T02:19:57","slug":"i-only-want-one-recipient-dammit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/2007\/12\/i-only-want-one-recipient-dammit\/","title":{"rendered":"I Only Want One Recipient, Dammit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" id=\"image182\" alt=\"WLM Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/2344_wlm_logo.jpg\" \/>I&#039;ve been reminded once again why I despise Microsoft&#039;s views on how to create software. Basically put, they like to <a title=\"kera.name Articles \u00c2\u00bb Evolution Of The Web Browser\" href=\"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/2006\/03\/evolution-of-the-web-browser\/\">make things pretty and simple<\/a> to accommodate the average Joe who&#039;s never heard of &#034;kernels&#034;, &#034;proxies&#034; or &#034;security&#034;.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight my Windows Live Messenger client has been playing up horrendously (and it&#039;s not the <a title=\"kera.name Articles \u00c2\u00bb Microsoft Intent To Ruin My Friendships\" href=\"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/2006\/11\/microsoft-intent-to-ruin-my-friendships\/\">first time<\/a>, either). In fact, for the last few days I&#039;ve been getting error messages progressively more frequently, but tonight it&#039;s reached the point where I literally cannot send any messages without being accosted with &#034;<em>this message could not be delivered to all recipients<\/em>&#034;.<\/p>\n<p>The message could not be delivered to all recipients?<\/p>\n<p>How deliciously vague that is. Why couldn&#039;t it be delivered? Was there a TCP fault? Did the message get lost in the network somewhere? Did it bounce from the client with an error? Was it filtered by MSN&#039;s central server for some arcane reason?<\/p>\n<p>None of this potentially useful debugging information is made available and as such, like with <em>many<\/em> Messenger problems, the mystery goes unsolved even when it occurs to thousands of people.<\/p>\n<p>See, Microsoft wouldn&#039;t want Joe to know that a proxy had failed to re-transmit the message. Joe wouldn&#039;t care. But I&#039;m sure when Joe calls his geeky friend Bert over to fix his Messenger client and Bert has no clue what&#039;s going on either, Joe will care. Joe will care a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Especially in the week that interim project reports are due.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#039;ve been reminded once again why I despise Microsoft&#039;s views to creating software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}