MARKEM Network Services - BOUNCE

[Fraser Campbell]

On November 4, 2003 04:04 am, David J Patrick wrote:

> Is this just SPAM ? Should I be surprised to find it following a TLUG
> thread ? ..should I wrap my head in tin foil ?
>                 ..what was that noise .. ? :-0

My opinion is that it is spam.  To me viruses, virus alerts, autoreplies and 
trash like this are no different than classic spam (Nigeria, Viagra, porn, 
whatever).

Their intent was probably not to spam, I suspect they just have an incredibly 
simplistic content filter in their email system and that a user there 
subscribes to TLUG.

I emailed abuse@ and postmaster@ that domain to let them know and asked them 
to fix the problem.  They're running Eudora Internet Mail Server 3.2.2, 
hadn't heard of that.

I believe my bounce came from an email where I mentioned how long Openoffice 
takes to load.  I can't fathom how it could be construed as "inappropriate 
for business" ... there's nothing particularly appropriate to business but 
how a machine could determine it to be inappropriate is beyond me.  Of course 
whatever software (or person) bounced the message was too stupid to quote the 
message so that a person could actually followup with a less offensive 
message, I just have to guess what bounced by the subject line.

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Fraser Campbell <fraser-Txk5XLRqZ6CsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org>                 http://www.wehave.net/
Georgetown, Ontario, Canada                               Debian GNU/Linux

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