Date:         Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:00:23 -0500
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
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From:         Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject:      Re: New List server: auto-abuse
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> And why do we need another list? T

We don't as far as I can tell. But I went there to see what was going
on, and this came back to me a few minutes later in a bounced email:

<vanagon-request@freelists.org>:
206.53.239.180 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 554 <smtp.knology.net[24.214.63.101]>: Client host
rejected: Access denied
Giving up on 206.53.239.180.

So, apparently they've managed to automate the insulting and put-down
part of this list so that it doesn't take up valuable resources of
their listmembers who can presumable concentrate on meaningful content.
On this list, on the other hand, insults, typos, outbursts and tantrums
must be thought up and entered tediously by hand, each one crafted to
more of less fit the situation or person it is aimed at.

Like John Henry and the steam hammer, we may be run out of business by
a simple auto-abuser script that dispenses with the formalities and
tells you you're not wanted right off the bat.

Wonder what this auto-abuser would have done if the phrase "timing
belt" had been found in my text?

Sorry, wouldn't have been fresh on friday.

Jim