The pet supermarket relay?

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Tue Mar 28 20:04:57 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 28 March 2006 14:47, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Michael Wiktowy wrote:
>> The consequence:
>> - Every person that emails to fedora-list wil get an echo email back
>> from uol.com.br's spambot
>>
>> The solution:
>> 1. everyone filters the spambot replies into the trash at their end
>>    - an easy solution that everyone has to take part in but is
>> permanent
>>
>> 4. everyone contacts the admin at uol.com.br to try to convince them
>> to stop
>>
>> So solution 1. is the most convenient way to go at this point,
>> unfortunately.
>
>There is at least one other possibility.
>The list server places its own address in the From header.
>Challenges come only to the server which ignores them.
>Presumably the orginal sender's address
>could be put in some other header line.

What other line?  That %$#@&^ spambot strips it all.
>--
>Mike   hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
>"Demons after money?
>Whatever happened to the still-beating heart of a virgin?
>No one has any standards any more."                    --  Rupert
> Giles

-- 
Cheers, Gene
People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word
'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's
stupid bounce rules.  I do use spamassassin too. :-)
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