On 8/16/98, Tom Lane wrote:
> Not only is it against RFC specs, but it's a good way to get the list
> traffic sent to /dev/null by anyone who's using spam filtering. There
> are a fair number of spammers using engines that put the victim's
> address into the Message-ID. As a result, a lot of people (including
> me) filter against Message-IDs like that. I've had to fish all of
> today's traffic out of a "probable spam" folder.
>
> Why in the world is this listserv generating a new Message-ID for each
> recipient, anyway? It'd make a lot more sense to preserve the original
> Message-ID, IMHO.
Preserving the original Message-ID also allows me to filter duplicate
messages from folks who cc: me directly as well as posting to the list
-- which works fine for every other list I'm on.
In short, the software is defective and the listadmin should replace
this "upgrade" with something that works properly.
-- Watch "Babylon 5" weeknights at 7pm (ET) on TNT! Peter_Kappesser@promail.com
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