mark lewis wrote in a message to Thom LaCosta:

 ml>> errrmmm... you're forgetting that my system didn't send you
 ml>> an insulting derrogatory email... my system simply responded
 ml>> to yours with an SMTP code 551...

 TL> Which told me to go to Hell and labelled me a spammer.

 ml> ok... but you stated that my system sent you an email which it did
 ml> not do... 

Gee, it looked like an email, it came in as an email...Oh I see, it was a
notification message.

 ml>> how do you suggest that i perform the
 ml>> above via SMTP error codes??

 TL> Did it need to say got to Hell?  Did it need to label me a
 TL> spammer?

 ml> it tells /everyone/ that if they do not pass thru the filter...
 ml> even whitehouse.gov and many major ISPs... i dunno how much spam
 ml> and junk email you've dealt with over the years... i've dealt with
 ml> way too much and don't mince words about it at all... you know
 ml> that... its not like i'm running a commercial setup with a bunch of
 ml> clients and such... i don't have to be nice about things in my
 ml> errorcodes if i don't want to... you do the same with the elist,
 ml> right? ;) 

Look, I don't need to read the crap in whatever you want to call the
communication the your system sent mine.  And what's funny is that any
spammer who did read such a message would either laugh at you...or maybe
even target your system for more spam.


cya,
thom
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