One wish for 2008: more polite robots!

[starphire]

It seems odd if not inappropriate for a delivery failure notice from the mail server at a socially oriented site such as livejournal to use the following text (the red highlighting is mine):

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at smtpout07.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net

Comments

[hakamadare]

I thought I was being informed that "nameless@livejournal.com" does not like ME

well, it's qmail. it doesn't like you. as far as major MTAs go, i find it to be the most hostile and aloof of the bunch, albeit remarkably hardworking and dependable.

-steve