Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751481AbWIGLzg (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Sep 2006 07:55:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751491AbWIGLzg (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Sep 2006 07:55:36 -0400 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:37853 "EHLO khc.piap.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751481AbWIGLzg (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Sep 2006 07:55:36 -0400 To: Chase Venters Cc: ellis@spinics.net, w@1wt.eu (Willy Tarreau), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: bogofilter ate 3/5 References: <200609061856.k86IuS61017253@no.spam> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:55:33 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Chase Venters's message of "Wed, 6 Sep 2006 17:05:05 -0500 (CDT)") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1347 Lines: 32 Chase Venters 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/