Monday, April 19, 2010

Things I don't understand

Posted by Reverend Ref + at 9:19 AM

Sometimes computers do things I just don't understand . . . well, okay . . . A LOT of times computers do things I don't understand. Usually, though, if I think it through I will at least figure out why I think they do things wrong.

Today, however, my computer is doing something that just doesn't make sense no matter how much I think about it.

Over the weekend I had reason to peruse a certain diocese's web page and saw that they are down to the short list of candidates for their next bishop. As it turns out, I know of of the candidates from way back when. He was a priest in my former diocese before I was married.

So I was going to send him a, "Hey, long time no see and prayers for you in the process" type of e-mail. He happens to be on staff at diocesan offices, so I found his e-mail which (for purposes of this blog) is priestdude@diocese.org. I copied the address and pasted it into the "TO:" field of my e-mail. And I got THIS:

gro.esecoid@edudtseirp

Um . . . Maybe it was because when I copied it, I highlighted the address from right to left.

Nope.

Anyone have an explanation for this reverse paste?

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2 comments:

Anonymous | 1:14 PM, April 26, 2010  

I've seen that! i think it does that to fight off spambots from being able to get the address off the website.

Anonymous | 12:15 PM, April 29, 2010  

kind:

weirdness.

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