Sending test messages to mailing lists of 500-1000 people just to test your mail filters is rude, and it's been happening a lot lately. On the other hand, building interesting mail filters is a reasonable cypherpunk topic - issues like reputation servers, email privacy, etc. are relevant technology, though this isn't mailpunx. So if you want to send us all a test message, it'd be nice if there were some description of the cool stuff you're implementing :-) On the other hand, if you just need someone other than yourself to send you mail, one useful technique is to send email to bogususer@wellknownmachine.com, for some value of wellknownmachine. Since most machines don't have a user named "bogususer", it'll bounce, unless of course it's running OS/2, which assumes that email for any address on the machine is targeted at the real user (or unless it's running an email system that doesn't implement bouncing...) At 01:40 AM 3/9/96 -0800, Bryan Koschmann <bryank@comtch.iea.com> wrote:

just a test to see if my filter works..sorry3 for any inconvenience Gate|<eepeR (!-=Gate|<eepeR ruLeZ=-!)

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