Re: [HACKERS] Testing mail list

2007-12-19 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: > Adding to my suspicion is that I don't recall having seen one of these > personally, I take that back --- some digging in my mail logs shows that I have gotten a few of these, but they went straight to /dev/null because my spam filters thought they were a virus. Have you checked whethe

Re: [HACKERS] Testing mail list

2007-12-19 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:15:37AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > hoping to draw responses from careless people? I've heard of web > comment-spammers who try to get other people to decode captchas > for them this way. Yes. This is the latest spammer trick. They get people all over the globe to decode

Re: [HACKERS] Testing mail list

2007-12-19 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane wrote: > Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It's worse than that in this case. This is an *impressively* broken > > configuration. > > Understatement of the week. The mail includes absolutely no evidence > about what message is allegedly being filtered. Are you sure that > th

Re: [HACKERS] Testing mail list

2007-12-19 Thread Tom Lane
Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's worse than that in this case. This is an *impressively* broken > configuration. Understatement of the week. The mail includes absolutely no evidence about what message is allegedly being filtered. Are you sure that this is really a filtering engin

Re: [HACKERS] Testing mail list

2007-12-19 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Alvaro Herrera wrote: On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 01:09:39PM +, Gregory Stark wrote: If I were the list maintainer here I would ban infotecnica.com.br addresses from subscribing to any of our lists. Ideally with a message saying "as a result of misconfigured mail software addreses from inf

Re: [HACKERS] Testing mail list

2007-12-19 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 01:09:39PM +, Gregory Stark wrote: > If I were the list maintainer here I would ban infotecnica.com.br addresses > from subscribing to any of our lists. Ideally with a message saying "as a > result of misconfigured mail software addreses from infotecnica.com.br are > ba

Re: [HACKERS] Testing mail list

2007-12-19 Thread Gregory Stark
"Andrew Dunstan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Receipt of messages like this is guaranteed an immediate entry in my junk > filter. Use of this braindead software is bad enough, but being so clueless as > not to whitelist a technical mailing list you subscribe to is truly horrible. It's worse than

Re: [HACKERS] Testing mail list

2007-12-19 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Gregory Stark wrote: I'm receiving bogus bounce messages like this (which are malformed even, the Subject isn't properly encoded). I'm not sure what list is generating them or what address but if we can figure out who could we drop whoever it is from the list please? ---

[HACKERS] Testing mail list

2007-12-19 Thread Gregory Stark
I'm receiving bogus bounce messages like this (which are malformed even, the Subject isn't properly encoded). I'm not sure what list is generating them or what address but if we can figure out who could we drop whoever it is from the list please? --- Begin Message --- A mensagem de email en