WSSC Shows Community How to Respond to Crisis

by Erik Wemple July 14th, 2008October 25th, 2020

Seems someone in the world of suburban Maryland quasi-governmental agencies has an excellent Spam filter.

The following e-mail comes from a Maryland resident who e-mailed the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission on Sunday night to say that the water wasn’t working.

Please note that this e-mail was directed to the commission’s emergency response center.

————— Forwarded message —————
From: Barracuda Spam Firewall Date: Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 5:13 PM
Subject: **Message you sent blocked by our bulk email filter**
To: [REDACTED]

Your message to: EmergencyCallCenter@wsscwater.com
was blocked by our Spam Firewall. The email you sent with the following subject has NOT BEEN DELIVERED:

Subject: Water Out

Final-Recipient: rfc822; EmergencyCallCenter@wsscwater.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.7.1
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 5.7.1 Message content rejected, UBE, id=19786-01-72
Last-Attempt-Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:13:23 -0400 (EDT)

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