How to get test messages to test your mail filters

Bill Stewart stewarts at ix.netcom.com
Sun Mar 10 15:18:27 PST 1996


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 at 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 at 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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