Please confirm (conf#3cf11a7145595546740c6064dbc27044)

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Mon Jun 30 06:55:27 PDT 2003


David G. Lawrence wrote:
> Michael Sierchio wrote:
[ ... ]
>> No, the real issue is that there are scads of virii/worms in the wild
>> which forge message envelope senders.  It is absurd to send
>> autoresponder messages to a mailing list.
> 
>    ASK doesn't normally send autoresponder messages to mailing lists, and
> of course I have freebsd-stable in my whitelist, but this particular forged
> piece of spam managed to not match my whitelist entry and also didn't look 
> like it was from a mailing list.

This ASK autoresponder should pay attention to the Precedence: header and not 
generate mail in response to 'bulk' or 'list' traffic types.

-- 
-Chuck



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