Re: dot.com bombs

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

 > From: Mark Reimers <http://www.100X.com/~mreimers>
 > Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 09:38:07 -0500
 >
 > You should see the current 'Fortune' magazine: "Twelve lessons from the
 > dot-com crash". I recall things that Marc used to say a lot that I never
 > believed.
 > 
 > #4 "Collecting eyeballs" is not a business model
 > #7 Branding is not a strategy
 > 
 > MR
 > 

OK.






>From http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert  Wed Nov  1 13:54:14 2000
Encrypt: on
To: Catherine A. Hampton <http://www.spambouncer.org/~spamtrap>
Subject: "Missing closing brace" error again
Bcc: http://www.spambouncer.org/~spamtrap
From: http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)
Message-ID: <bFEDpgxtaYFwIIAlfkOoJA@robert>
Status: O


I think I figured out the problem.  It's with this line:

{ EPLAT=yes}

It will fail if there is not a space before the closing brace.  This will work:

{ EPLAT=yes }

 > From: http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)
 > 
 > I'm getting a "procmail: Missing closing brace" error.  The problem
 > seems to occur in the case where sender's address (in this case, the
 > domain part) is in ${NOBOUNCE}.  Unfortunately, matching braces in the sb.rc
 > is so confusing (and confuses my editor) that I cannot find which one
 > might be missing.
 > 
 > I'm suspecting that to reproduce the problem, you just need to put an
 > address in your ${NOBOUNCE} file and try sending a mail from that address.
 > 
 > Thanks.