An open letter to a certain company who shall not be named:

[theweaselking]

Dear Email System Administrators:

No, just because somebody forged some From headers is NOT a good reason to start blacklisting domain names. Especially not domain names belonging to THREE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLAR A YEAR COMPANIES who happen to be CUSTOMERS OF MY CLIENT.

We like receiving their email, and there are better solutions - like, say, filtering on keywords. Or content. Or source IP. Or even volume. But we KINDA NEED THE LEGIT EMAIL, HERE, YOU IDIOTS.

I hate you,
-John

Comments

[harald387.livejournal.com]

Ah, CCWSNBN. Fucking up our interwebz since... well, a very long time.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Certain Company Who Shall Not Be Named. Bah!

(It's a different CCWSNBN this time)

[mhoye.livejournal.com]

"You must be this tall to operate the mail server."

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Apparently, the problem in this case actually may be Microsoft's fault, since the CCWSNBN are blaming a recent update to MS Antigen or their newfound 95% false positive rate on incoming email.

[singingnettle.livejournal.com]

Shirley you jest. Microsoft never screws up.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

And don't call me Shirley.

[unknownpoltroon.livejournal.com]

NAME EM!! NAAAAME EM!!!!

[singingnettle.livejournal.com]

You and my husband are kindred spirits. I often have to wipe the spittle off him, too.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

All sysadmins are like this, or will be soon if they still have that shiny new gleam about them. Our job involves dealing with stupidity on a never ending basis.

[singingnettle.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, don't I know. ;-}