On 20-01-2006, Jaap van Ganswijk wrote:

> The Fatcity list server doen't forward
> much of the original header information so
> you can't do much detective work based on it.
> You'll have to leave that to the list manager
> (Bruce Bergman). He has developed extensive
> filters to weed out all kinds of spam, but
> sometimes one slips through.

True. Unless Bruce adds a filter rule that plonks every message with less than
n lines of text AND a binary attachment, many worm infested messages /will/
end up on the list.

> It's probably best to ignore them.

Or make your own mailfilter do the (ignore) work for you.
(silently delete if To="[email protected]"
 AND Content-Type="multipart/mixed;")
Also gets rid of muppets, who just don't get the "no attachments" part of the
posting rules ;-)

Just my €0.02
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