Re: IETF announce list and spam filtering

[Pekka Savola <pekkas at netcore.fi>]

On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> The recent discussion about SPAM and it being a problem reminds of
> something that I've been meaning to mention.  Currently, mail sent to
> the IETF announce mailing list has the following To: header:
> 
> To: ;@IETF-Announce
> 
> This is worth 1.1 points of "Spam nature" (sort of like Buddha nature,
> only completely different :-), according to SpamAssassin:
> 
> SPAM: TO_MALFORMED       (1.1 points)  To: has a malformed address
> 
> It would be really nice if the To: field could be adjusted so it looked
> something like this:
> 
> To: ietf-announce at ietf.org

So people know what address to use when they want to spam the whole IETF 
(just forge From: to be scoya at ietf.org or whatever, a couple of tries and 
you're in.)?

Not that it seems such a big secret now either..

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Pekka Savola                 "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
Netcore Oy                   not those you stumble over and fall"
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