"David T Darnell" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
news:a2kvdp0cr5@enews2.newsguy.com...
> The email address does not accept XXXX formatted messages.

(Where XXXX is the unword that dare not speak its name, but is the universal
language of web pages, and a deprecated format for email messages).
>
> In response to:
>
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> In message <[log in to unmask]>, David T Darnell
> <[log in to unmask]> writes
> >The email address does not accept XXXX (the unword again) formatted
messages.
>
> This isn't one, right? It just says XXXX (the unword)?
>
> Let's see what Dave's responder does.... :-)

Dave's responder, as I suspected, is sufficiently brain-dead to merely
detect the name of 'XXXX the unword' in a posting, without looking in the
headers to see if any of the posting is actually formatted using 'XXXX the
unword' :-(

So not only can nobody write to him using XXXX the unword as a formatting
agent (which is fair enough), but nobody can write to him *about* 'XXXX the
unword' or any considerations thereof. Somewhat restrictive, I would have
thought.

> But either way, I wish it wouldn't respond to the list, which is wrong;
> it should either respond to the list-admin or (in an unusual reversal of
> the usual problem with OOTO messages) to the poster directly.....

And even more so now.

And while we're on good Usenet/mail conventions, please also note that it
doesn't snip sigs.

But it'll be an excellent thing when Dave gets it right, and I want one.....

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Hmmmm.... looks like it might let xxxx the unword (in lower case) past...
I guess it might bounce a few more messages (like all of them!) back to the
list if it didn't !!!

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