full-disclosure - Fighting useless notification mails

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Message-ID: <000001c416dd$f509a510$0201a8c0@fosi>
From: steve.wray at paradise.net.nz (Steve Wray)
Subject: Fighting useless notification mails

> Marc Ruef
> 
> Viruses and worms that spread as mail attachments are filling our 
> inboxes day for day. Most of this nastly little monsters are able to 
> generate random or faked from addresses.
> 
> I receive dozents of automaticly generated notification mails that 
> presume I sent a not allowed attachment. 

What amazes me is that none of that crap gets flagged as spam!

I'd have thought it would be fairly easy for a bayesian filter to
spot.

And it *is* spam. Both unsolicited and commercial; they are advertising
their product.