[OT] mails with exclamation marks + mailman security flaw

[Jordon Bedwell]

On 5/23/2011 8:00 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> 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.

I don't assume Mark was talking about Amedee, rather the people who do
excessive exclamation marks like it's going to add more exclamation.