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Date:      Sun, 11 Feb 2001 18:25:10 -0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Drew Derbyshire <software@kew.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Postfix and Majordomo security (was FreeBSD Ports Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-01:INSERT_NUMBER_HERE) 
Message-ID:  <200102120225.f1C2PAU43817@mobile.wemm.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010211204300.64780N-100000@fledge.watson.org> 

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Robert Watson wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Peter Wemm wrote:
> 
> > Regarding spam, the thought just occurred to me that we can catch a lot
> > of it by checking that the list name appears in a To: or CC: line
> > somewhere.  eg: If mail to -current does not have
> > '.*current@freebsd.org' in the To: or CC: line (most spam has got
> > fakeuser@hotmail.com or something), then bounce it. 
> 
> Hmm.  I kind of liked being able to Bcc: lists, especially given that
> (last I checked) we had some magic somewhere to bound cross-posts.

Naturally.  But I personally would rather being able to catch nearly all
of the remainder of the spam. :-)  The inconvenience of not being able to Bcc:
would be (IMHO) a small price to pay.

Besides: this would make life a little easier for the procmail folks if
we could guarantee the headers were going to be there in To:/Cc:.

Cheers,
-Peter



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