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>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.

   It does. The email that ASK responded to did not come from the
freebsd-stable mailing list.

-DG

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