Re: [cobalt-users] email scanning

[Dom Latter <qube@xxxxxxx>]

Rik Thomas wrote:
> 
> procmail would work, you would have to use your system procmailrc to do it
> and it would add a tremendous load on your servers if you are pushing any
> appreciable amount of mail.  The recipe would be a hairy beast and then
> you get into limited logic, breast or chicken breast which is bad and not.

With or without special exemptions for Bible and Shakespeare quotes, 
one wonders?  Medical texts - are they allowed?  Does it understand 
Rot 13?  Is "fsck" being used as a swear word or as part of, say,  
Linux server administration discussion?

These things (email filters) are complete carp.  I know of one
company that installed one and configured it so that *all* recipients - 
including those outside their domain - got sent an automated email
telling them that "a piece of email entitled such-and-such has been 
filtered out by the spam detector".  So, I got sent an unwanted email
by a spam filter.  Ironic.  Of course, if there had been another 
company on the original list of recipients of that collection of jokes
with the same braindead configuration, and the title of the original
mail had contained "offensive language", the automated reply would have 
generated another automated reply....

Excuse my rant.  These things don't work, are easily circumvented, 
and have no place in adult life.

Now, *what* was the problem that this "solution" was meant to address?