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On a tangent to my existing hate of ClearSwift MAILsweeper (which a bit of Googling for the error messages leads me to believe it was that blocked my dad's mail): > Scenario: Scenarios/Incoming/Block Profanity: The operation completed > successfully. > > Text Analysis Results > > This report describes the search expressions found in this message. > Scenarios/Incoming/Block Profanity found the following search expressions in > '0.0.0': > > * The phrase 'britney spears' was found at the location(s): 4. What the fuck kind of error message is this? It's almost totally useless to the user. These things will make no sense to someone like my dad: * "Scenario" - complete with path to the filter for fuck's sake * "The operation completed successfully" - what operation? says Dad * "search expressions" - whats? * "in '0.0.0'" - huh? * "at the location(s): 4." - this is my favourite. It's too dumb to know whether to make the word location into a plural, and then it gives you a number with no context. 4 what? It can't be locations, because the string only appeared once. And it can't be line 4, because it occurred after about ten lines. So the error message could have read: - Your mail was rejected because it contained the following words proscribed by our filtering policy: Britney Spears. It could include an event reference number too, perhaps, which could refer to a system log. All the rest is totally unnecessary junk. According to their website: ------ Why choose CS MAILsweeper for SMTP * The world's #1 for email content security * Optimizes network performance * Feature rich and comprehensive * Provides intuitive e-policy wizards * Up to 100% increase in performance * Prevents virus infiltration * Prohibits denial of service attacks * Protects intellectual property * Maintains compliance ------ I think that speaks for itself, don't you? -- Earle Martin hex on irc.perl.org http://purl.oclc.org/net/earlemartin/
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