On Tuesday 28 March 2006 14:47, Michael Hennebry wrote: >On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Michael Wiktowy wrote: >> The consequence: >> - Every person that emails to fedora-list wil get an echo email back >> from uol.com.br's spambot >> >> The solution: >> 1. everyone filters the spambot replies into the trash at their end >> - an easy solution that everyone has to take part in but is >> permanent >> >> 4. everyone contacts the admin at uol.com.br to try to convince them >> to stop >> >> So solution 1. is the most convenient way to go at this point, >> unfortunately. > >There is at least one other possibility. >The list server places its own address in the From header. >Challenges come only to the server which ignores them. >Presumably the orginal sender's address >could be put in some other header line. What other line? That %$#@&^ spambot strips it all. >-- >Mike hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >"Demons after money? >Whatever happened to the still-beating heart of a virgin? >No one has any standards any more." -- Rupert > Giles -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
