Tl;Dr - everybody on Voyager lacks the most basic of common security sense, and roams the delta quadrant with the naivety of children. Discuss.

Long version: Let me preface by stating that we've watched all of TNG and DS9, and we're approaching the end of Voyager, so maybe I'm just burned out on Trek's writing in general, but why do so many of Voyager's plots require a complete lack of security common sense to work?

Case in point: we've just watched "Repression", wherein Tuvok has been attacking and mind melding with all of the old Marquis crew, who have now all recovered from their mystery comas and been put straight back on duty. Tuvok is in the brig talking with Janeway. Not only did they let him keep his combadge, but when he uses it to relay a bunch of strange words to Chakotay, who replies that he "understood", Janeway at no point thinks it might be prudent to have Chakotay immediately detained. This leads to a full ship takeover and Janeway almost getting killed.

Then literally the very next episode a random trader is able to straight up steal the doctor out from under everyone's noses. I know the internet was in its infancy when Voyager was created and we were all pretty naive about data security, but come on!

So many plots rely on critical systems being wide open for anyone to tamper with, or crew members lacking the most basic of common sense and/or being way too trusting of complete strangers.

I appreciate that it would be a pretty boring show if everything was locked down and people did their jobs properly, and that I might as well be complaining about the fallacy of Holodeck safety protocols, but I had to get it off my chest!

If it weren't for the fact that it's become a bit of a running joke to point out all of the ways a major plot device could've been avoided I think we'd have stopped watching a couple of seasons ago.

Has Trek always been this way, or is the writing on Voyager just particularly lazy/bad?

We're currently using a traditional third party email gateway for spam/phishing scans etc, and we're using that gateway to redirect a few hundred (don't ask) email addresses to Zendesk and few other places. Now we're moving to an integrated solution that means having 365 handle incoming emails directly and we're struggling with the best approach to porting those redirects.

As it stands, with our domains marked as Authoritative, email is bouncing before any mail flow rules are evaluated due to not having existing mailboxes or contacts. I suppose "best practice" is to create contacts or mail users for all of the support addresses we need to use, followed by either mailbox-level forwards or mail flow rules for all of those addresses (or lump them into a group where appropriate). But that way seems like a big pain in the ass to administer.

The other option is to set the domains as Internal Relay, which will allow 365 to skip checking whether an address exists, and then just use mail flow rules to handle the redirections directly, which we can script easily enough. But that way seems unsupported at best, and raises big questions about what happens when someone emails an actual non-existent address.

Googling didn't come up with much in the way of useful documentation so I asked a couple of AIs and they've been similarly inconclusive. Copilot thinks that misdirected email will simply bounce with a "no route found" NDR, and gave me error code 5.4.312 that appears to be made up, while ChatGPT thinks that it'll result in a mail loop and eventual 5.4.6 error, "routing loop detected".

ChatGPT's explanation seems more plausible and its suggestion of using a catch-all rule to either redirect or bounce mis-addressed emails sounds good on the surfacce, but again, I can't find anything written by actual humans to confirm or deny.

So I come to you, denizens of sysadmin! Is there any suggested or best practice configuration for the redirection of large amounts of email addresses? Is using Internal Relay on what is actually the final hop a supported configuration? Or is the only supported/sane option to use an Authoritative domain along with the additional overhead of mail contacts?

Hugely appreciate any thoughts!

Hey all,

I used to build my own gaming PCs way back in the 90s/early 2000s but I fell out of the habit when I realised I'd rather kick back on the sofa with something that "just works" than constantly chasing framerates etc, and I switched to exclusively console based gaming. Now that I own a Steam Deck, and with Xbox going down the shitter, and my kids becoming of the age where having a static family PC makes a lot of sense, I've decided to move back into PC gaming.

I started looking at self builds again but everything's moved on so much since I last dipped my toes into that space that I struggle to know where to start. Then I saw an Alienware A51 in the refurb store with a decent early Black Friday discount code and very-nearly top-end specs so I pulled the trigger yesterday:

£2525

• Core Ultra 9 285K
• Geforce RTX 5080
• 64GB RAM
• 2TB Gen5 SSD
• 1500W platinum PSU

Retail, this spec is currently going for £3600 so it's a sizeable saving, but now I'm getting cold feet on the basis of the Intel chip not being the best choice for gaming (and will possibly never see the BIOS fix that Intel rolled out to address this), the odd PSU that'll likely need swapping out at some point in the future, and the sheer size and weight of the thing.

On the plus side, the reviews I've seen say that it's very cool and quiet, which is pretty important to me, and I do like the case design itself - it's very understated compared to most of the off-the-shelf options out there. On the downside what looks like a huge discount on the surface is mostly just wiping out the Dell premium, and similarly specced AMD options are available elsewhere for similar prices - albeit with the aforementioned off-the-shelf cases and a big question mark over noise levels.

All of which is to say: Help this former DIY builder feel a bit better about dropping this much money on a Dell of all things! Odd CPU choice aside, this is still a decent system at a decent price, right?

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Some sort of goals against streak, no more than 2 or possibly 3?Also unclear as to whether that's a franchise or NHL record?

... Due to past performance post mid-season, but look at those standings! Even if Boston or New York catch up in points we'll still be on top.

Anyway, just sending some hockey love from a UK Jets fan.