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From: Robert van der Meulen <rvdm () CISTRON NL>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 04:11:08 +0100
[moderator: If this email is too much flamebait for the list, can you please ask the subscribers to do something about this?] Hi, I do not dislike Trend's products, but i _do_ dislike content filtering. Can the people subscribed to vuln-dev (and other securityfocus lists) _please_ do something about their settings ? I keep recieving these 'sensitive content' messages on posts i do, and together with the vacation-messages they're becoming quite annoying. The decision if something is 'sensitive content' does not lie with a piece of software, at least not where a _public_ mailinglist is concerned. Apart from that i don't like a mailer telling me that messages to this public list are not allowed to contain a four-letter-word starting with 'f' and ending in 'uck'. This is for the moderator to decide, not for a filter. If you want to filter content, then don't subscribe to public lists that are handled by your filter - that's one of the payoffs of using such a system. inflammatory email can go to me, and (probably) not to the list. Greets, Robert The message concerned (all headers stripped except for From:):
From: System Attendant <AASSVR3-SA () accurateairsystems com> Trend SMEX Content Filter has detected sensitive content. Place = VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM; ; ; Robert van der Meulen Sender = Robert van der Meulen Subject = Re: execution inside of Perl reg ex? Delivery Time = December 30, 2000 (Saturday) 20:55:39 Policy = Dirty Words Action on this mail = Quarantine message Warning message from administrator: Sender, Content filter has detected a sensitive e-mail.
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