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I do like the O365 quarantine. It'll just occasionally go rogue and just start blocking all the Microsoft message - but won't actually give any reasons why it's blocking them. I reckon it's just spiteful banter between the different internal teams.
It'll also just decide that it's going to quarantine a load of email that was delivered to mailboxes several days previously. I can see the rationale behind doing so but it's always a bit confusing when the quarantine screen suddenly has loads of old emails suddenly appear. It's especially confusing for the end users who suddenly can't find their emails.
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Maybe only the County part is optional? Though how would you know to put in your province before seeing the error message?
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I wonder what that County/State one would do if I selected "France", since France has neither counties nor states.
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France does have départments, which are pretty similar to counties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Departments_of_France
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At almost a kg per cc, AlexMetall's test material is 434x denser than osmium. They must be working on something very special!
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Have you tried filling in the text "optional" in the "County / state (optional)" field?
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France does have departments, but it's not usual to put those in the mailing address; it's just city/town and postal code.
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I don't understand the Microsoft quarantine one at all. Given how easy it is to spoof the sender of an email, I have no way of determining from the screenshot whether the message is genuinely from Microsoft or a phishing attempt on someone who has publicly mentioned using Azure.
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Clearly the "Optional" one means to stay that the county/state is optional for certain countries...which some sites handle a bit more elegantly.
But of course the state in this case is "New York" and the city should be "Schenectady". Having a cool zip code is one of the few benefits to Schenectady, NY.
Addendum 2024-09-20 11:19: s/ to / to living in /
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Yes, I know. I've been doing exactly that for the last fifteen years, seeing as how I (...) live in France. In fact, I'm sure I've mentioned that many, many times on this site and its forums.
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Of course the label on the state/county textbox, and it's optionality or not, may well be configurable based on the UI culture / language. We can't know whether that form is aimed at the USA only or is aimed at all English-speaking countries.
It's a decent bet it's badly done in any case and whoever wrote it is blissfully ignorant of most of the details of postal addressing in everywhere except their hometown. And they're not actually all that well-versed in that location / locale either.
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it was a valid Microsoft Azure Admin update, SPF/DKIM/DMARC pass. In an amusing extra WTF they actually sent me 4 copies of the exact same Azure warning email, 2 of which were delivered and 2 of which ended up in Office365's Quarantine, all 4 were totally identical save for different date/time. I didn't deem it necessary to complicate the submission with proof it was a false positive, as I assumed any reader would think I wouldn't have submitted it if it was, given the context.
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I forget the name of the sf author who, tired of being asked where he got his ideas from, started replying, "Schenectady."
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Please accept my most sincerel condolences
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Context is for the weak.
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Osmium has a densitiy of 22,6 g/cm³, so it's only about 50 times as much. Maybe it's 0,004 cm³ of a neutron star with a lot of packaging around it.