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Re: [Fwd: ScanMail Message: To Sender,sensitive content found and action taken.]
From: Blue Boar <BlueBoar () THIEVCO COM>
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 13:26:17 -0700
Crispin Cowan wrote: 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. Now I'm starting to get bounces from censor-ware that has decided I'm a smut-monger because I may use naughty words in a post. On at least one occasion, I got a bounce because I mentioned the BitchX client. Blue Boar: What is the list policy on this stuff? Do people who leave idiot robots connected to the list get dropped? I wish they would. Preferably with a note sent to their subscription address telling them that they've been dropped for having a robot subscribed to the list.
The policy is that I drop subscribers that generate auto-responses. All anyone has to do is send me a copy of the bounce/autoreply/etc.. and I'll do my best to drop them (not always straightforward... every once in a while I get some subscriber who has forwarding through 2 or 3 different systems, such that there is no obvious relationship between the autoreply from: and an address that is subscribed.) The only exception is when I let a live virus through the list, and I get 2000 virus-scanning gateways replying to me or the list. I don't unsubscribe them for that. :) Reminder: The proper way to send malware for the list's consideration is inside a password-protected .zip. The password is to be published in the same note. The reason is to avoid setting of such gateways. BB
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)