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Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org> writes:

>It is Alan's privilege to choose whatever he wants for the email
>subject,  but the sad part is, that every time a reference is
>made to  AIC7XXX in email subject, vger's keepers get tons of
>spam-rejections.

>Tons of sites have bad lookups matching only "XXX" substring, and not 
>checking if that happens to be a substring in some word...

It would be a positive signal to net hygiene if you simply drop sites
which do such bounces off the list with a final message to the
subscriber and its postmaster with an automated message for the
reason.

Spam-Filtering is one thing. Harassing the LKM list admins because the
spam filtering got out of control is not.

And people starting to change their message subjects to be
"politically correct" because any combination of the letters "x", "x"
and "x" gets rejected is simply a bad sign.  IMHO.

	Regards
		Henning

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