Re: (PM) An Apology is in Order!

Joe Hartley (jh@metheny.brainiac.com)
Thu, 1 Jan 1998 17:38:01 -0500 (EST)

Ingrid Kast Fuller <ingrid@cityscope.net> wrote:
> This is what I received when I replied to the
> portmaster-users@livingsont.com and todd@tekinteractive.com users!
[ snip ]
> You have spammed my e-mail account with an unsolicited e-mail
> advertisement.
[ snip ]
> The message has a subject of Re: (PM) show xxx.
^^^

I'll bet a nickel that this is the problem. I was recently considering
dumping all mail I get that has an xxx in the title via my procmail
filters. It usually indicates yet another "pay to see porno" email
that I don't care to see. Most likely Todd needs to chill a bit on
his auto-responder, and as users, we all need to be cognizant of what
certain strings will do.

A story I heard (which might be urban legend) was that one of the
telcos had its webpage on the "banned" list by one of the Internet
kid-proofing software packages. Turned out that the URL for their
ISDN page used xxx - either as a mistake, or as a way to show up in
a search run by anyone looking for smut to help convince porn-hounds
to get a faster line!!

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