From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 9 07:14:17 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 05865E7B for ; Tue, 9 Jun 2015 07:14:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from bede.qeng-ho.org (bede.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9E36411F2 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 2015 07:14:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from arthur.home.qeng-ho.org (arthur.home.qeng-ho.org [172.23.1.2]) by bede.home.qeng-ho.org (8.14.9/8.14.7) with ESMTP id t5972fTA046025; Tue, 9 Jun 2015 08:02:41 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Message-ID: <55768F91.1030604@qeng-ho.org> Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 08:02:41 +0100 From: Arthur Chance User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu, che@bein.link CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Junk mail on list reply References: <1647612.8LsUtL0D9u@thinkpad> <61481.128.135.70.2.1433799590.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <61481.128.135.70.2.1433799590.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 07:14:17 -0000 On 08/06/2015 22:39, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Mon, June 8, 2015 4:22 pm, Maxim V Filimonov wrote: >> Recently, I started getting junk emails every time I reply to someone in >> any >> of the FreeBSD Mailing Lists. The messages look like the one attached. Can >> anyone do anything with that? Can I consult anyone to fix that? Why is >> that >> happening after all? > > Hi Maxim, > > from what have been discussed earlier about similar events related to > posts to this list I can say: > > 1. these apparently foreign (with respect to the list language) e-mails > appear to be auto-replies (by some likely subscribed to this list) > > 2. domain sina.com is notorious for these things (I for one consider it > rudeness to allow any auto-reply sent to mail list, as well as messages in > foreign language - at least I would never allow myself to do neither of of > these two things) > > 3. list admin(s) are more likely to be reluctant to block the whole domain > sina.com from this list (or their list server); I would respect their > decision, even though it is different from what I would do. > > The best you probably can do is to block all mail from sina.com (including > that re-sent through this list) on your end. You can be a little less draconian than that. Set your mail filters to delete any mail from sina.com with a subject line containing "自动回复", which is the common feature of these mails. (Google Translate tells me that's Chinese for "Autoreply".) -- Those who do not learn from computing history are doomed to GOTO 1