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

[Joseph Touch]

> On Sep 12, 2020, at 10:24 PM, the keyboard of geoff goodfellow <geoff at iconia.com> wrote:
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> joe, please de-confuse yours truly:
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> not only did it happen to you, but it also happened to karl as well as yours truly when sending a message with the single word “hook-up” in it? (Without the hyphen).

It’s, as Brian put it, a “snowflake filter” at ISOC - one that is not part of the Mailman configuration, but it is part of the ISOC processing.

> in all three cases, an email sent to IH with the word “hook-up” (Without the hyphen) did not go out to the list, but instead it went to /dev/null -- with NO notification to the sender (or anyone).
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> isn't that consistency between us three and not just unique to you?

It is - I wasn’t saying it was unique to me; I was saying it was not.

Joe

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> with eternal gratitude for your being our list admin,
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> geoff
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> On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 7:05 PM Joseph Touch <touch at strayalpha.com <mailto:touch at strayalpha.com>> wrote:
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> > On Sep 12, 2020, at 9:58 PM, Stephen Casner <casner at acm.org <mailto:casner at acm.org>> wrote:
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> > On Sat, 12 Sep 2020, Joseph Touch via Internet-history wrote:
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> >> I administer this list as supported at no cost by ISOC.
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> > And we appreciate it.
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> >> I didn't write Mailman and don't know why it didn't send a bounce
> >> message.
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> > Perhaps ISOC's Mailman was not where the problem occurred.
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> If not, then why would it happen for me when sending a message with the single word “hook-up” in it? (Without the hyphen)?
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> I don’t use the same mail system on my end as either Karl or Geoff.
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> Joe
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