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Re: [Fwd: ScanMail Message: To Sender, sensitive content found and action taken.]
From: "Bluefish (P.Magnusson)" <11a () GMX NET>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 18:47:49 +0200
Is anyone else distressed at the amount of crap one gets when a post goes out to a large mailing list? I get 5 to 10 pieces of floatsam every time one of my posts appears on Bugtraq, firewall-wizards, or vuln-dev. At first it was just assorted idiots using vacation 'bots that can't tell the difference between mailing list traffic and personal e-mail.
Yes, I've been complaining to some of the robot-sites. Also I complained to one vendor (trend IIRC) which replied that they were sorry about the incidents and that the option should be implemented in some soon to come release. Personly, I use filters to avoid as many as possible of these messages, and use this account only for mailinglists. Numerous misconfiguration cause us being spammed: away, policies, message returns etc. Ideally, offending sites should be notfied and blacklisted for some while after causing troubles for posters, but automating that in turn may be hard / dangerous. And doing it manually is probably far to much work (assuming our dear moderator has a life ;-) MY RECOMENDATION: 1. complain to offending vendors (don't forget to mention that you believe this to be a problem which may affect yours or others interest in the product!) 2. complain to offending sites ..:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::.. http://www.11a.nu || http://bluefish.11a.nu eleventh alliance development & security team http://www.eff.org/cafe
Current thread:
- [Fwd: ScanMail Message: To Sender, sensitive content found and action taken.] Crispin Cowan (Sep 24)
- Re: [Fwd: ScanMail Message: To Sender,sensitive content found and action taken.] Blue Boar (Sep 24)
- Re: [Fwd: ScanMail Message: To Sender, sensitive content found and action taken.] Bluefish (P.Magnusson) (Sep 27)