One wish for 2008: more polite robots!
It seems odd if not inappropriate for a delivery failure notice from the mail server at a socially oriented site such as livejournal to use the following text (the red highlighting is mine):
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at smtpout07.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
:
204.9.177.52 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 450 : Client host rejected: S25R check rule 1, be patient
Giving up on 204.9.177.52.
I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long.
--- Below this line is a copy of the message.
Reading it the first time, I thought I was being informed that "nameless@livejournal.com" does not like ME. Which wasn't entirely impossible in this case.
Stupid @$% insensitive mailer Daemon!
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at smtpout07.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
:
204.9.177.52 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 450 : Client host rejected: S25R check rule 1, be patient
Giving up on 204.9.177.52.
I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long.
--- Below this line is a copy of the message.
Reading it the first time, I thought I was being informed that "nameless@livejournal.com" does not like ME. Which wasn't entirely impossible in this case.
Stupid @$% insensitive mailer Daemon!