We're being censored! Kinda. (Was: RE: Offensive Email - RE: [Zope] Some basic questions on Zope performance/scalability)

Martijn Pieters mj@zope.com
Tue, 10 Sep 2002 13:36:12 -0400


On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 09:53:47AM -0700, Charlie Reiman wrote:
> > From: fw_admin@airnz.co.nz [mailto:fw_admin@airnz.co.nz]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 9:15 AM
> > To: creiman@kefta.com

> >     Message:  B00050725b.00000001.mml
> >     From:     creiman@kefta.com
> >     To:       mike.stevenson@airnz.co.nz

> I hardly think I've sent any offensive email to the list. Off-topic and
> irrelevant, sure, but not offensive.

Don't worry about it; this happens all the time. Various organisations use
various ways if keeping unwanted emails out of the door, with various levels
of success. This one is a particularily blunt version that'll cost them
business in the long run, and it is also very broken in that *you*, got this
message.

Normally, such replies should go to the envelope sender, which is
'zope-admin@zope.org' in this case. Which menas that if that recipient
filter does this kind of bouncing too often, their subscription gets
disabled automatically, or Mailman cannot parse the bounce and I get to
decide wether or not I can tolerate the bounces for any lenght of time. :)

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Martijn Pieters
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