From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 07:18:27 +0800
To: Bryan Koschmann <bryank@comtch.iea.com>
Subject: How to get test messages to test your mail filters
Message-ID: <199603100739.XAA27461@ix2.ix.netcom.com>
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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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