Feeling Blue About Hosting

More troublesome fun with my domain. I have found it’s always better when I tell the support person exactly what the problem is.

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What service do you need help with?

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Email

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Business said
Please select the option below that best describes what you need help with.

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Issue Sending/Receiving

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I found this article that may help you; You can find more information here: https://www.bluehost.com/help/article/email-troubleshooting-sending

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Business said
Did that answer your question?

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No

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May I please have your first and last name to provide to your agent?

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IMAP stopped working

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What is the domain name associated to the account you are contacting us about today? If you do not have a domain name type "pass".

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dograt.com

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Thanks! For our team to quickly begin researching your request, please describe your issue in detail.

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{"SessionId":"b3945850-10b1-4713-816d-02911dba526b","Timestamp":1732476313948,"Error":"INVALIDCREDENTIALS TEMPORARILYUNAVAILABLE"}

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Let me get you to someone who can help. Please note, once our agent has completed assisting you, we'd also like to invite you to complete a brief survey on your experience today.

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Washington Post Post

Trump has called the press the “enemy of the people” and threatened retribution, including jailing reporters, investigating NBC for treason, and suggesting CBS’s broadcast license be taken away. Terry Gross talks with David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, and Marty Baron, former executive editor of The Washington Post, about the media landscape as we head into a second Trump administration. — Fresh Air with Terry Gross

Red-Tailed Trouble

As I mentioned recently, there’s a hawk hanging around the neighborhood. A red-tailed hawk.

Yesterday, I heard him calling from the highest perch of the tallest tree, when another hawk joined him. If there’s a Mrs. Hawk, as far as I’m concerned they’re welcome to take up residence here. There are plenty of yummy squirrels for their dining enjoyment. Then today I saw this.

A red-tailed hawk is fighting for its life in Massachusetts, the latest predatory bird to fall victim to ingesting a controversial rodenticide.

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/birds-of-prey-rodenticides-sgar/

The infrequent times I detect the presence of a mouse in the house, I use catch-and-hold traps, never poison.

Shelley Angel

Watching daytime re-runs of The Donna Reed Show as a kid during summer vacations made me an admirer of Shelley Fabares.

“Johnny Angel” was recorded a couple of times by others before Shelley turned it into a #1 hit.

“Johnny Angel”, as performed by Shelley and produced by Stu Phillips, is an excellent example of the importance of studio production in capturing the right sound for a song to turn it into a hit record. The effect here seems to almost be a nod to Roy Orbison.

In February of 1962, Shelley, Paul Peterson and I went into United Recording, and together we recorded four sides. “Johnny Angel” with Shelly and “She Can’t Find her Keys” with Paul. The recording engineer was the legendary Bones Howe. — “Stu Who?”, by Stu Phillips, page 125

In 1966, Bones Howe engineered this #1 record by The Mama’s & The Papa’s. It was produced by Lou Adler, Shelley’s first husband.

That same year, Howe was the producer behind this fantastic Turtles single.