We're being censored! Kinda. (Was: RE: Offensive Email - RE: [Zope] Some basic questions on Zope performance/scalability)
I just sent that little joke about Fred being Jane and I got this creepy response from some over-protective server in New Zealand.
-----Original Message----- From: fw_admin@airnz.co.nz [mailto:fw_admin@airnz.co.nz] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 9:15 AM To: creiman@kefta.com Subject: Offensive Email - RE: [Zope] Some basic questions on Zope performance/scalability
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Message: B00050725b.00000001.mml From: creiman@kefta.com To: mike.stevenson@airnz.co.nz Subject: RE: [Zope] Some basic questions on Zope performance/scalability
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I hardly think I've sent any offensive email to the list. Off-topic and irrelevant, sure, but not offensive. Most interesting is that it doesn't send you the offensive email or note what the offensive words are. After studying my email, I think it is triggering on the word 'blow' in 'joeblow', though it might as well be triggering on 'Internet'. Obviously, this block is on Mike's email, not the list's so it's not that heinous. I find it chilling but on the plus side, Mike's delicate sensibilities will be protected.
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. :) -- Martijn Pieters | Software Engineer mailto:mj@zope.com | Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com/ | Creators of Zope http://www.zope.org/ ---------------------------------------------
Charlie Reiman wrote:
I just sent that little joke about Fred being Jane and I got this creepy response from some over-protective server in New Zealand.
It's not just mail servers doing this. I had several pages of one of my sites banned by a school system's filtering proxy because they were linked with query strings containing the term "budgetitem". It took several experiments to distinguish that as the offensive word. -- Jim Washington
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