Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: bogofilter ate 3/5 | From | Krzysztof Halasa <> | Date | Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:55:33 +0200 |
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Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.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@vger.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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