I briefly looked at the admin interface to see if it does allow specification of rules and it looks like it can either accept userids or domains. Header configuration is probably specified elsewhere. That aside, I am also wondering about the "I am out of office" type of messages to the list. Maybe the infrastructure team can somehow put in a rule that detects and ignores these types of messages?
From: Scott Battaglia [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 6:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [cas-user] spammed by same email 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 -- 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
