Philip Prindeville wrote: > Well, I tried to contact some people responsible for > the servers below that what they were doing was broken, > including citing chapter and verse where in RFC-2822 in > syntax of the Received: lines was spec'd out: > > <snip> > It just boggles my mind why anyone would go through that much trouble > to deliberately damage a header line, rather than just delete it. > > Well, maybe they'll get a whiff of the errs of their ways in the > Hall of Spam Shame... >
Maybe.. but you never know.. some idiot lawmaker may have passed a law requiring that government organizations use that string whenever censoring private information anywhere.. Once you're dealing with the military (or any government organization) you can definitely have situations of compound stupidity.. Stupid law, interpreted stupidly by a high-ranking officer, with a stupid solution planned by mid-ranking officers and performed stupidly by the rank-and-file who can't make heads nor tails out of the nonsense they're given.. :) It's really amazing, but sometimes together people can collaborate to create something dumber than any of them could have thought up alone. And strict hierarchies of command tend to feed such developments.
