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

[Joseph Touch]

> On Sep 12, 2020, at 10:05 PM, Joseph Touch via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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>> On Sep 12, 2020, at 9:58 PM, Stephen Casner <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.

To clarify - the issue is definitely at ISOC. It might not be inside the Mailman software; there appears to be (as Brian put it) a “snowflake filter” running somewhere in their receive processing path. Again, I’ve contacted ISOC to find out.

Joe