It was IBM, it might be Lotus notes not Exchange ;-) I'll forward these headers to our infrastructure team to see if they are already doing this.
Thanks! On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Ohsie, David <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it possible to put in rules into the mailing list software to suppress > messages with the following headers? > > Auto-submitted: auto-generated > x-auto-response-suppress:all > > 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 > > > > -- > > You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: > [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja- > > sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-user > > > > > > > > -- > > You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: > > [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, > > see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-user > > > > -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-user
