[9fans] spam rejection after reception does have limits

[ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>]

I just got this linuxbios list message rejected from some random host
somewhere due to the racy, dirty subject line:

Subject: New config tool

The naughty word, according the the system that rejected it, was 'tool'.

This situation is impossible. I'm getting truckloads of bounced mail for
no real reason. I think mail as we have known it for a quarter century is
going down, one way or another. (I'm remembering it was just 25 years ago
that Dave Crocker was down the hall from me at Udel working on RFC 822 and
the MMDF stuff -- seems like -- well, 25 years ago -- creak, creak). The
early ARPANET mail work was predicated on the fact the great unwashed
weren't allowed on the ARPANET unless you were vetted, or unless your
buddy gave you the TIP dial-in 800 #.

We have a half-working solution now on 9grid. I agree with everything
everyone has said about the limitations of import /mail/box but I don't
see the current SMTP-based systems lasting a whole lot longer if you can't
even say

Subject: Thank you

in a mail message.

ron