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

[Grant Taylor]

On 9/12/20 10:33 PM, the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via 
Internet-history wrote:
> your truly would summarily posit that if there is one "forbidden" 
> word there are likely others...?

Agreed.

> WHO decides what they are and WHY is any mail sent with any of them 
> just /dev/null'd¿

My bet is a former admin that was dealing with a spite of unwanted 
messages that had the trigger phrase(s) in them.

> 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?

Yes.*

* I expect that SMTP successfully delivered the message from the 
sender's server to the receiver's server.  So, SMTP didn't loose the email.

I speculate that the problem is somewhere in the receiving MTA or the 
LDA that delivers the messages into Mailman.

> ERGO, it seems that the IH list apparatus or some part there of is 
> in summary violation with This Central Email Tenet, no?

Yes and no.  See above for why.



-- 
Grant. . . .
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