Re: Please confirm (conf#3cf11a7145595546740c6064dbc27044)

From: David G. Lawrence (dg_at_dglawrence.com)
Date: 06/30/03

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    Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 23:14:17 -0700
To: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>

    >Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
    >
    >>David G. Lawrence used to be called David Greenman. He's one of the
    >>founders of the project.
    >
    >I do wish people who change their names would send notices.
    >Did he get married? ;-)

       No, I didn't get married.

    >>The real issue here is that somebody has forged a message and sent it
    >>to him.
    >
    >No, the real issue is that there are scads of virii/worms in the wild
    >which forge message envelope senders. It is absurd to send
    >autoresponder messages to a mailing list. It is a bad idea (tm)
    >to send autoresponder messages upon receiving malware or spam.
    >Sysadmins everywhere are getting messages from clueless users,
    >themselves recipients of nag or bother messages asking, in
    >effect, "why did you send me a virus" when the user has no
    >friggin' clue who the doofus sending the complaint is. This
    >is BONEHEADED.

       ASK doesn't normally send autoresponder messages to mailing lists, and
    of course I have freebsd-stable in my whitelist, but this particular forged
    piece of spam managed to not match my whitelist entry and also didn't look
    like it was from a mailing list.
       I respectfully disagree with your second assertion that doing sender
    confirmations is 'a bad idea'.
       Despite this little hickup with ASK, I highly recommend it. It
    sucessfully filters about 99.999% of the spam that I get, while rarely
    blocking legitimate email.

    -DG

    David G. Lawrence
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