Administrivia: SPAM control, vacation messages, and the like.

[Dan Hanson <dhanson () securityfocus com>]

Good morning Incidents subscribers...

In the last couple days, I have received some complaints from posters
about automatic responses to valid incidents posts. These automatic
responses have been generated by SPAM filtering or virus filtering
software.

I would ask everyone to review their rule settings, or contact their mail
adminsitrators to review their settings, and restrict automatic responses
to mail from the incidents mailing list, or subscribe an address that is
not prone to these issues.

There are many thousands of subscribers to this list, and even if it is a
tiny subset of the total subscriber list that responds, this can still be
20+ messages, and in some cases it could discourage posting.

As an aside, this can also be regarded as information leakage, as often
the software that is performing the filtering, as well as the destination
mailbox is included in the message.

Cheers

D


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