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.

3 thoughts on “Mail filters written by idiots.”

  1. 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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