Article: 8244 of alt.sysadmin.recovery From: Arthur van der Harg Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery Subject: Re: Balls to the walls Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 11:18:14 +0200 Organization: Wirehub! Internet, The Netherlands Lines: 23 Approved: AvdH Message-ID: References: <87r8xg5yt0.fsf@bgnett.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: newsreader1.wirehub.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: thor.wirehub.nl 990609488 97622 195.86.128.18 (23 May 2001 09:18:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@wirehub.net NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 May 2001 09:18:08 GMT In-Reply-To: <87r8xg5yt0.fsf@bgnett.no> Cache-Post-Path: newsreader1.wirehub.nl!unknown@poindexter.wirehub.nl X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b2 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Path: news.meer.net!sea-read.news.verio.net!dfw-artgen.news.verio.net!dfw-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!feed.news.qwest.net!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!news.tele.dk!194.165.93.117!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!kleenex.wirehub.nl!news.wirehub.nl!poindexter.wirehub.nl!avdharg Xref: archive.mv.meer.net alt.sysadmin.recovery:8244 On 23 May 2001, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > Arthur van der Harg writes: > > > I just received the most interesting spam. It advertized an email > > filter, specifically meant to... yep, combat spam. > > One is the briliant "fuzzy" clock[1], the other is KMail's "Bounce" > command, which generates an authentic-looking (or close enough) "mail > failed, returning to sender" message from MAILER-DAEMON. Mmmhhh... I feel 'MWS mode[0]' coming on... Arthur [0] Must Write Script mode, i.e. the succession of "hey neat idea, it shouldn't be too hard to write a little script for that" through "hell it's harder than I thought" to "&#^$^%#$&%^ script still doesn't handle $situation" without the option of actually stopping work on it [1] NMF