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Geeks have a sense of humor

Many of the Internet protocols have been originated in old days where automated software was not always available. The geeks of old used to send emails directly using telnet. For that reason the SMTP protocol included text based responses. The communications between your email server and recipient lies mostly hidden but every now and then, if you are like me and are looking, you may find a humorous email server.

Here is a transcript from one of the sessions that I tried today:

220 SMTP Enhanced Server 8.01 (c) 1995-2008 DataCrunch.Net
help help
251- DataCrunch.NET SMTP command list.
251- --------------------------------------
251-
251- HELP [ COMMAND]
251-
251- If you are seeing this then you have
251- already figured out the enhanced version
251- of HELP command. You may also try just
251- HELP by itself to get list of commands.
251-
251- --------------------------------------
251 Powered by DataCrunch.Net SMTP server.
help quit
251- DataCrunch.NET SMTP command list.
251- --------------------------------------
251-
251- QUIT
251-
251- As the name of command suggests,
251- emitting QUIT followed by end of line
251- signals that you are ready to close
251- connection. Our system will acknowledge
251- and then it will proceed to disconnect
251- your session.
251-
251- --------------------------------------
251 Powered by DataCrunch.Net SMTP server.
quit
251 [QUIT] - Thank you for using DataCrunch.Net software, have a nice day.

Connection to host lost.

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Having found one funny server, i looked around and someone was running earlier version. After a few tries I found some funny messages in this version as well:

220 Service ready. Powered by DataCrunch.Net SMTP server.
test
500 Huh? Your command [TEST] puzzles me...
rset
250 [RSET] accepted. Make up your mind and try again.
quit
251 [QUIT] accepted. Connection closed.

Connection to host lost.