Is it possible to put in rules into the mailing list software to suppress messages with the following headers?
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The first is a "standard" header
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5436#section-2.7.1. The other I think might
be an Exchange-ism (I didn't do enough research).
Just from a quick check, 9 out of 10 of the last "auto" messages that I
received (including as one, the latest auto-response loop) contained one of
the two headers. I didn't check for false positives.
Dislaimer: This information is based entirely on some quick googling and
checking of headers, so it should be vetted for accuracy.
David Ohsie
Software Architect
EMC Corporation
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Fisher [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 4:31 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [cas-user] spammed by same email
>
> More feedback on the subject - I appreciate that rapport of friendliness
> enough to think it worth enduring the occasional inconvenience that
> occurred. Most client provide a means to deal with the spam burst in some
> kind of relatively efficient manner and the value of all the real content
that
> we get from this list far outweighs the whatever headache was caused.
>
> Thanks to those of you who responded as quickly as you could to address
it.
>
> Ted F. Fisher
> Server Administrator
> Bowling Green State University
> 323 Hayes Hall
> Information Technology Services
> Email: [email protected]
> Phone: 419.372.1626
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marvin S. Addison [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 1:21 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [cas-user] spammed by same email
>
> > It's bad that the users do not know how to behave properly as part of
> > a public list, but it's worse that it is tolerated.
>
> Friendliness is a value of the CAS Community; tolerance is a natural
outcome
> of that value. In most cases of list backscatter we remove the person and
> send a friendly note. Out-of-office automatic responses, which represent
> the vast majority of list spam, go directly to the poster. There is
absolutely
> nothing we can do in that case.
>
> This case was pretty extreme and my only regret was not acting sooner.
> I'll be moving to get admin privileges on the list software so that there
will be
> one more active member who can take action when needed.
>
> Apologies folks.
>
> M
>
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