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Date:      Mon, 30 Jun 2003 09:55:16 -0400
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Please confirm (conf#3cf11a7145595546740c6064dbc27044)
Message-ID:  <3F004144.5060709@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030630061417.GA35100@nexus.dglawrence.com>
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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.

-- 
-Chuck



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