Re: police report against the petition mob

[Jacob Bachmeyer]

Daniel Pocock wrote:
> <rms@gnu.org>: host eggs.gnu.org[209.51.188.92] said: 550 bad domain - email
>     sysadmin@fsf.org for details (in reply to RCPT TO command)
>
>
> <gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org>: host eggs.gnu.org[209.51.188.92] said: 550 bad
>     domain - email sysadmin@fsf.org for details (in reply to RCPT TO
> command)

Those messages say "bad domain" ... either someone has very specifically 
rigged the mail server to specifically reject your email with a bogus 
error, or there was a very unfortunately timed configuration error that 
caused a GNU MX to be unaware that gnu.org exists.  Considering that the 
former would require specially modified code, while the latter could be 
the result of an innocent typo in a configuration file, I would suspect 
the latter to be more likely.

Evidence that this only affected you would, of course, change that 
view.  Did sysadmin@fsf.org reply when asked about this?


-- Jacob