[ih] Found the bug - a word to avoid....

[Joseph Touch]

Geoff,

It’s not spam (I turned spam rejection off during the test). 

I administer this list as supported at no cost by ISOC. I didn’t write Mailman and don’t know why it didn’t send a bounce message. 

If you find out, please do let us know and I’ll see what I can do to get it fixed.

Joe


> On Sep 12, 2020, at 9:33 PM, the keyboard of geoff goodfellow <geoff at iconia.com> wrote:
> 
> your truly would summarily posit that if there is one "forbidden" word there are likely others...? 
> 
> WHO decides what they are and WHY is any mail sent with any of them just /dev/null'd¿
> 
> isn't one of The Central Tenets of email: messages are never "lost" and if an email cannot be delivered for whatever a reason, then the sender of said message is summarily notified via a "bounce" message of some sort?
> 
> ERGO, it seems that the IH list apparatus or some part there of is in summary violation with This Central Email Tenet, no?
> 
> geoff
> 
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 6:25 PM Joseph Touch via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org <mailto:internet-history at elists.isoc.org>> wrote:
> Hi, all,
> 
> So here’s what happened at least to Karl’s attempted post - and everyone (including me) in their attempt to repost.
> 
> The word is “h o o k u p” (without the spaces).
> 
> You can say “hook-up” or “hook up”. But you can’t put the letters together without spaces or hyphens.
> 
> Why?
> 
> — I have NO IDEA — 
> 
> I’m going to claim this is a bug because it’s not on any of the pages I’ve configured. It’s not triggering the spam filter. It’s just a bug somewhere.
> 
> I’ll report it, but in the meantime - 
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>         - if you had a post fall on the floor, please check if you used that magic word. If so, please re-post with a hyphen or space
> 
> Joe
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