There once was an admin (actually there have been many) who had used a e-mail filter to attempt to stop a company's confidential information leaks on the outbound path (which is what this looks like to me). Unfortunately, the poor fella didn't pay attention to the limitations of his filtering package, which wasn't meant for any kind of AI scanning, only pattern recognition. He set it to bounce all mail containing the unique name of a secret project, let's call it Ances) and notify the recipient that the mail bounced (thus, in his eyes, making any willing recipient of confidential information somewhat leery of further attempts). Problem was, he wasn't counting on his filter catching legitimate mail because other words contained the same pattern (example would be an e-mail with the word Reliancesoft getting caught because of letters 5 thru 9).
I don't know how Trend's product does its content filtering, but if this type of scenario is possible, it could just be the mail admin trying to send a message to the list. Maybe if that is the case, they will sign up for a free-mail account somewhere, subscribe that account, and e-mail from there if they think this list can help somehow.
Then again, I could be (and usually am) completely off-target.
-Curtis
On Friday, December 20, 2002, at 03:51 PM, John Tolmachoff wrote:
Trend Micro ScanMail for Exchange Server.It seems that someone is running a poorly designed spam filter of some sort, that has caught several messages here.
John Tolmachoff MCSE, CSSA
IT Manager, Network Engineer
RelianceSoft, Inc.
Fullerton, CA 92835
www.reliancesoft.com
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