OT: Spam notice
I just got this mail after sending a post to this list: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Chris Nandor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am an automated email sentry designed to protect against unwanted email. You recently sent an email titled 'Re: apache / mod_perl / libapreq problem' to one of my subscribers. Your email message has triggered anti-SPAM concerns and it has been put into a holding area. We need you to confirm that it is not SPAM so it can be forwarded to its recipient. It is a very simple process, please use a browser to go to this location: http://198.92.120.145/ Just click the checkbox and hit submit, and your mail will be delivered. The SPAM conditions that were raised were: * RecipientNotSpecifiedIn_To_or_Cc Adjusting SPAM filters is a continual process and we apologize that your legitimate email has been caught. By forwarding your email via this form, your confirmation will be logged and the email filters will be adjusted accordingly. Thank you for your patience with this process. MaxStrengthMail 1.0_20021213 However, I have no patience for this process, and if you are a Hotmail subscriber, sorry, but you won't get my posts, and any further notices like this from Hotmail will be considered spam themselves. -- Chris Nandor [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://pudge.net/ Open Source Development Network[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://osdn.com/
Re: OT: Spam notice
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Chris Nandor wrote: However, I have no patience for this process, and if you are a Hotmail subscriber, sorry, but you won't get my posts, and any further notices like this from Hotmail will be considered spam themselves. aol / More amusingly, the filter page you're asked to go to allows you to put in a comment (and the comment I put was substantially your rant above, asking the person to figure out how to whitelist mailing lists or just not sign up for them in the first place), but when you hit submit you get a server error. Ha. Ha. Ha. -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] user-friendly, adj. 1 Marketing: A predicated applied so widely and uncritically that it is now totally devoid of meaning. 2 Programming (derogatory): Hacker-hostile; insanely mollycoddling; obsessively fool-proof and fit only for fools. See also APPLIANCE COMPUTING. -- from _The Computer Contradictionary_, Stan Kelly-Bootle, 1995
