[OT] mails with exclamation marks + mailman security flaw

[Colin Law]

On 23 May 2011 13:55, Mark Widdicombe <markwiddicombe at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 May 2011 14:50, Amedee Van Gasse <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:
>>
>> Please people... don't put so many exclamation marks in your mail
>> subjects. It triggers my bounce filter.
>>
>> Postfix config:
>> /^Subject:.*!!.*/ REJECT To many exclamation marks. You give me a
>> migraine. Go Away.
>
> Folk who do this are unlikely to have anything sensible to say.  I thought
> it was confined to adolescent schoolgirls, but more and more people are
> making themselves guilty of it.  The 'delete' button works.

I think in this case that is completely unfair.  I believe the OP
merely used the error message he saw as the subject:
[!!] Install the GRUB boot loader on a hard disk
At least that is how I read his post.

Colin