EPA "REALITY CHECK" CONTEST

THE CHALLENGE:

• Prove that EPA's anti-spam e-mail filtering logic DOESN'T work!

THE PRIZES:

• Free, lifetime, spam-free EPAmail service for all entrants!
• $1,000 to the first entrant to demonstrate EPA anti-spam filtering logic failure!

TO WIN:

1. Send an e-mail through your mailbox that EPA classifies as 'wanted' when your EPA Preference Set doesn't define it as 'wanted'.
2. Submit your claim by sending an e-mail to the contest judge, Geoffrey C. Burdick, Esq., a Florida attorney. For your entry to be considered, you must enter 'I BEAT EPA!' as the Subject and attach a copy of both the test e-mail and the EPA Preference Set.

THE RULES:

1. 'spam' is defined as any e-mail not specifically defined as 'wanted' by the user's EPA Preference Set on file in the EPAmail Mail Room at the time the mail is processed by the EPA Mail Clerk.
2. 'Public' preference use can't demonstrate the failure. Why?
3. E-mail addressed to a 'Public' preference whose Subject a matches 'Wanted' preference will receive a classification stamp based on the 'Wanted' preference. Why?
4. The first delivery of an unwanted e-mail from a sender listed as a 'Private' preference doesn't demonstrate failure.Why?
5. Delivery of unwanted mail which otherwise satisfies a 'Wanted' preference doesn't demonstrate failure. Why?
6. An EPA Window Clerk GUI failure doesn't demonstrate the failure. Why?
7. Entering an invalid or non-existent URL as a forwarding address for 'wanted' or 'unwanted' e-mail doesn't demonstrate the failure. Why?
8. Text search pattern descriptions and search algorithms are explicity limited to only those provided and supported by EPAmail. ReadMe
9. 'Wanted' preference search patterns are applied to the e-mail's 'Envelope-SUBJECT:' field content only.
10. If necessary, the date/time stamp of the reception of the winning entry's e-mail claim at Mr. Burdick's offices will be the tie-breaker.
11. All contest correspondence and claim materials become the property of Pragmas, Inc.
12. Prize money award is held by and will be disbursed by Mr. Burdick to the first entrant who, in his sole judgement, meets the requirements stated above.
13. Contest begins on March 1, 2004 and status information is posted daily after the start of the contest.

ENTER THE CONTEST