As much as I like to complain, I am not sure I would come to the same
conclusion. It seems like a simple bug.

Yours,


David

On 13 February 2018 at 19:49, Philip Paeps <phi...@trouble.is> wrote:

> On 2018-02-13 15:07:33 (+0100), David Hofstee wrote:
>
>> Ok... So this is the clue with the Yahoo form... There is a contact form
>> with a number of questions. One of the questions is
>>
>>
>> *Copy the entire message which triggered the errorPlease remove < and >
>> characters around important information (e.g. IP addresses and email
>> addresses).*
>>
>> *Don't do that*. Just paste the headers and maybe the text version.
>> Because the form is not POST-ed but GET-ed. This means that if you message
>> is too long for a URL (most cases in email marketing) then stuff gets cut
>> off at the end (and the processing fails).
>>
>
> Oh groan!
>
> I really wish people would stop putting their abuse desks (etc) behind web
> forms.  The abuse came in via email.  Let us complain about it via email
> please.
>
> The "everything over HTTP" culture is getting out of hand.
>
> Philip
>
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