Re: [Fwd: ScanMail Message: To Sender, sensitive content found and action taken.]

["Bluefish (P.Magnusson)" <11a () GMX NET>]

> Is anyone else distressed at the amount of crap one gets when a post
> goes out to a large mailing list?  I get 5 to 10 pieces of floatsam
> every time one of my posts appears on Bugtraq, firewall-wizards, or
> vuln-dev.  At first it was just assorted idiots using vacation 'bots
> that can't tell the difference between mailing list traffic and personal
> e-mail.

Yes, I've been complaining to some of the robot-sites. Also I complained
to one vendor (trend IIRC) which replied that they were sorry about the
incidents and that the option should be implemented in some soon to come
release.

Personly, I use filters to avoid as many as possible of these messages,
and use this account only for mailinglists. Numerous misconfiguration
cause us being spammed: away, policies, message returns etc.

Ideally, offending sites should be notfied and blacklisted for some while
after causing troubles for posters, but automating that in turn may be
hard / dangerous. And doing it manually is probably far to much work
(assuming our dear moderator has a life ;-)

MY RECOMENDATION:

  1. complain to offending vendors
     (don't forget to mention that you believe this to be a problem which
     may affect yours or others interest in the product!)

  2. complain to offending sites

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