On 1/2/2015 10:56 AM, lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote: > > 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 >
And yes, people too. At least around here, some people get miffed at all kinds of things that seem silly to others. That doesn't make them less offended. It's not just obscene words (for whatever personal definition), but also imagine a sacred name, or an "evil" name, or just a noob's confusion if an ID contains some random dictionary word. -- Noel Jones
