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Mail filters written by idiots.

I got an email from my Dad, and since it’s a Microsoft Turd document I tried to bounce it to my work account so that I could read it there. But it bounced:

<tomblin@foo.bar.com>: host mailgate5.foo.bar.com[192.232.121.235] said: 550
    Message refused - Banned text appeared in header or body: ’shit’ (in reply
    to end of DATA command)

I piped the message through strings to see where the banned text occurred. It was somebody’s name - “Phil Matushita”. Words fail me.

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3 Responses to “Mail filters written by idiots.”

  1. Joe D Says:
    December 13th, 2004 at 10:38 GMT

    It’s a good thing that Phil wasn’t going to Scunthorpe for his vacation.

  2. alice Says:
    December 13th, 2004 at 13:31 GMT

    Drat….beat me to it! Oh well.

  3. Mike Says:
    December 18th, 2004 at 09:50 GMT

    I like how it tells you what the word is. “We think that’s a naughty word. We won’t accept it from you, but here it is in our error message, back atcha bub.”

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