Today's "who's on first" call

[serinde]

(M-x irritated-female-southern-accent-mode) "Hi, I just got somethin' in mah e-mail, and it's all about some subscription, and I looked it up and it's somethin' to do with this Panix, and what's this all about?"

"Uh...what?"

"[Repeat.] And it says I registered for some site dot com..."

"Okay, hang on, what's the site name?"

"Some site dot com!!"

"Right, but what site? What's the actual domain name there?"

"I done told you it's some site!"

"...Oh. You mean s-o-m-e-s-i-t-e ?"

"Yeah."

(check corp domain list) "We don't host this site. What..."

"I looked it up! It talked about this Panix place!"

(nwhois somesite.com) "Uh, according to the registrar, this domain name belongs to someone in Hong Kong. It's got nothing to do with us. It's not hosted here and it's not a domain our company owns. Where did you look it up?"

"On the Internet!!"

"Yes, but how specifically?"

"I googled it! And it said something about forwarding emails to somesite.com..."

(light bulb) "That's a help page. We used "somesite.com" as a generic example to illustrate how mail forwarding works--like some places use "yourdomain.com" or the like. But no, this mail you got has nothing to do with us."

"Well, what is it then?!"

[Afterword: out of curiosity, I googled for "somesite.com", and the first page of hits didn't actually show anything in Panixland.]