Re: French Cultural Ministry and Email Warfare

From: Markus Kuhn (Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Nov 30 1998 - 08:28:40 EST


I suggest that bottin@culture.fr is immediately unsubscribed from
unicode@unicode.org and postings from @culture.fr are blocked until the
French Ministry for Culture and Communication has slaughtered its crazy
email system, which obviously violates numerous Internet mail standards
and severely disrupts mailing lists.

Markus

mailmaster@culture.fr wrote on unicode@unicode.org several hundred
times:
> Votre adresse de retour est erronée (elle doit être de la forme @culture.fr).
> Corriger là, ou contacter votre administrateur local.
>
> Votre message destiné à
> bottin@culture.fr
> ayant pour objet "Erreur de configuration.",
> a toutefois été envoyé.

etmjehe@genesis.etm.ericsson.se (Jeroen Hellingman) wrote on
unicode@unicode.org several times:
> STOP THIS NOW !!!!!!!

You are shouting at a mad computer in a French ministry. There are not
many more hopeless activities on this planet that I could think of ... :-)

Markus

-- 
Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org,  WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>



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