On Fri, Jul 19, 2024 at 03:38:14PM +1000, Kate Lance wrote: > The list discussed a few weeks ago that it was probably an automatic message > from the mailing-list software because of some unfortunate incident at ANU. > It's certainly not personal. If ANU wants to do this - for a mailing-list > on their infrastructure whose benefits we've enjoyed for free for decades - > then of course they can.
This seems to have started in March this year. My guess is that it's inserting that scamwatch message to any message with a From: header containing an outlook.com or gmail.com address (maybe other well-known e-mail account providers too). (and it's probably happening at ANU's mail servers, not the mailing-list server - lots of spam/scam/virus email gets sent directly to recipients, not to lists) Given the amount of spam from those domains, someone probably thought this was a reasonable compromise compared to simply blocking such mail. I disagree - IMO, you should either accept or reject a message, never change it. But a) I can understand why someone might think it's reasonable especially when they're receiving mail for many thousands of probably-not-tech-savvy and possibly clueless or gullible staff and students and b) it's not my mail server so I have no say in it. I know on my own mail server I wish I could just block mail from those domains but there's also a lot of legitimate mail from them, too much to simply block them. Instead, most mail from outlook & gmail gets caught by my header and body check anti-spam filters (which costs a lot more processing power and time than simply blocking the domains during the SMTP session) and ends up in the quarrantine folder. I just grepped my current LINK inbox, and Stephen is the ONLY person sending from an outlook.com address in the last several years (since 2017 or so). And there's only one person sending with a From: header matching @gmail.com. They're the only messages that have had the scamwatch warning added. Stephen, you can test this by trying to send a message from an alternate address if you have one. You may have to subscribe from the alternate first, depending on whether LINK only accepts mail from subscribers or not. craig _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
