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Garry Tan

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Posterous Internal Email Test Reveals Sachin Agarwal's Comcast Residential IP

This leaked email header from August 9, 2010, shows Sachin Agarwal, a Posterous employee, testing an email from his sachin@posterous-inc.com account to the company's press@ list. Headers expose his originating IP as 24.5.83.171 from a Comcast residential connection (c-24-5-83-171.hsd1.ca.comcast.net). Processing routed through Google mail servers with neutral SPF authentication, indicating early cloud email reliance at Posterous.

Passenger Ruby App Crash in MongoDB Remove During Rails Post Destroy

A Ruby on Rails application running under Passenger 2.2.7 crashes during a post destroy operation. The failure originates in the Post model's delete_meta_data callback at line 234, which invokes MongoDB's collection.remove via mongodb-mongo gem 0.14.1. The stack reveals deep transaction handling with plugins like seamless_database_pool and deadlock_retry, terminating in Passenger's spawn server process.