[OT] mails with exclamation marks + mailman security flaw

[Colin Law]

On 23 May 2011 14:22, Jordon Bedwell <jordon at envygeeks.com> wrote:
> 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.

Amadee referenced the post from Mariano which had the subject line
that caused Amadee a problem.  By inference Mark Widdicombe was
therefore including Mariano in his comment about 'folk who do this.'

Colin