From: Ann Barcomb Date: 15:35 on 23 Dec 2003 Subject: Misconfigured anti-spam software Messages like the one below annoy me. I think it's the people more than the software though. My own experiences with SpamAssassin are fine. But I don't know of an I-hates-people list. First of all, this message was sent in response to a letter to a mailing list. If you can't distinguish a letter as being from a mailing list, at least have the decency to unsubscribe. And, if mail is only unsolicited, why reply, since the address is probably forged? Just delete it. Grrr. - A, also hating websites which require JavaScript, yet again. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [this message has been automatically generated] Please note that this address is no longer in use, and nowadays receives nothing but unsolicited commercial mail. Accordingly, any mail sent to it is automatically deleted. If you genuinely want to contact the owner of the address, please re-check your contact lists, or search the web, to find their current e-mail address. The mail you sent is reproduced in full below, for resending to the correct address. Sorry for the inconvenience! [-- Signed: the SpamAssassin mail filter]
From: Aaron J. Grier Date: 22:37 on 24 Dec 2003 Subject: Re: Misconfigured anti-spam software On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 07:35:51AM -0800, Ann Barcomb wrote: > And, if mail is only unsolicited, why reply, since the address is > probably forged? Just delete it. on a related note, one of my lusers has a whitelist program [1] which sends an autoreply to EVERY message he gets asking them to go to a web site and type in a magic number (à la yahoo) to be added to his whitelist. this wouldn't piss me off so much except he's hesitant to let me trash anything with a high spamassassin score, and thus consistently has 60+ messages pending to bogus addresses in the outbound mail queue on any given night. aww fsck it. I'm doing it anyway. he'll never notice. [1] Choicemail: http://www.digiportal.com/ . ironically their newsletters are sent from blacklisted netblocks and contain enough goofy HTML to trip spamassassin.
From: Gavin Estey Date: 03:56 on 25 Dec 2003 Subject: Re: Misconfigured anti-spam software On Dec 24, 2003, at 5:37 PM, Aaron J. Grier wrote: > on a related note, one of my lusers has a whitelist program [1] which > sends an autoreply to EVERY message he gets asking them to go to a web > site and type in a magic number (=E0 la yahoo) to be added to his > whitelist. > I have a solution to these people. I've been putting domains of these=20 services in my blacklist because most of the messages I get are=20 authentication requests for ones I didn't send or the person is an=20 idiot. Gavin.
From: David Cantrell Date: 13:05 on 29 Dec 2003 Subject: Re: Misconfigured anti-spam software Aaron J. Grier wrote: > on a related note, one of my lusers [behaves like an arse] If he is one of *your* lusers as opposed to one of your employer's lusers, why is this a problem? Your system, your rules.
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