Re: enable_long_queue_ids vowels are unsafe why?

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Zitat von li...@rhsoft.net:

Am 02.01.2015 um 17:41 schrieb lst_ho...@kwsoft.de:

Zitat von wie...@porcupine.org:

Jeffrey 'jf' Lim:

As per subject.
http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#enable_long_queue_ids says:
"For safety reasons the vowels (AEIOUaeiou) are excluded from the
alphabet." In what way are vowels unsafe?

Postfix should not generate offensive text such as "fuckyoubastard",
neither in English nor in other languages. Removing the vowels from
the alphabet will avoid such problems with many languages.

We have been lucky that there are no reported accidents with the
old hexadecimal-style queue IDs.

   Wietse

I wonder if there are really people around who get offended by a
"random" generator also generating offensive text...

not people, but content scanners which look also at headers

Another point for the list why content scanner are evil...

Thanks for the hint

Andreas

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