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Message-ID: <m37j0fvqkq.fsf@defiant.localdomain> Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:55:33 +0200 From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl> To: Chase Venters <chase.venters@...entec.com> Cc: ellis@...nics.net, w@....eu (Willy Tarreau), linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: bogofilter ate 3/5 Chase Venters <chase.venters@...entec.com> writes: > You can check the From: or envelope sender against the subscriber > database. Forgery isn't a concern because we're not trying to stop > forgery with this method. That's the first problem. > The perl script behaves as an optional autoresponder. Autoresponders > would respond to spam as well (well, unless you put a spam filter in > front of them, but I assume that many don't). Yep. Sending their "responses" to innocent people, instead of spam senders. That's what many "antivirus" do. > Also note that a number of people (myself included, at work anyway) > have perl scripts that respond to all incoming mail and require a > reply cookie from original envelope senders. We do it because it > almost entirely prevents spam from arriving in our inboxes Sure. Don't you think is also prevents a lot of legitimate mail? Hope that all addresses you send mail to are automatically added to a white list? (I'm especially annoyed with people asking me for something, and then my answer bounces with "click somewhere" response). -- Krzysztof Halasa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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