Dueling Filters
Posted on:: September 23rd, 2004
Here’s a message I received this morning:
This notification has been sent to inform you that a message has been quarantined by InterScan MSS for SMTP.
Subject: Blog draft
Rule: Incoming Policy
Filter: CONTENT FILTER
Problem:
Filter Type: Advanced Content Filter
Event:
at MAILBODY: CONTENT , “shit” violated Action on Attachment: NOT MODIFYAction: Quarantine
So, this message quotes the word that triggered the quarantine. Apparently, then, there are uses of this word that are acceptable…
…unless, of course, my own spam filter were set to protect my virgin ears from such filth, in which case it would have sent it’s own rejection letter, citing the offending word, triggering a response from the original filter…
Categories: Uncategorized dw
dude, get with the times: “shit” is always a problem waiting to happen, unless it refers to the actual physical fundamental expulsion, in which case it is usually welcomed (except as untimely diahreia (sp.?).
Interscan MSS is a big piece of SHIT.
I get their shit responses all of the time from companies who use their system. The Interscan shit is a shitty setup that’s like either A. the bush administration, or B. those in charge in Orwell’s 1984, or C. maybe all of the above are the same.