On 08/18/98, "Thamer Al-Herbish <shadows@whitefang.com>" wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Joshua D. Baer wrote:
>
> Wow, hadn't read the list for a while, and now I stand aghast.
>
> > So don't use in your message and it won't happen. It's not
> > a common string or anything (if we were substituting on "name" it would be
> > another story). There aren't random body substitutions happening, it only
> > happens in VERY specific instances which are easily avoided without any
> > extra effort on your part. No one would even know about them if I hadn't
> > left the footer at the bottom of messages in the beginning.
>
> Not good enough, here's why:
>
> A new subscriber joins in, sends us a little email, and with a signature
> containing the very string you mention. That individual doesn't know any
> better (I wouldn't expect *anyone* to know any better unless you told them).
>
> A new subscriber forwards a message from another mailing list, which he
> believes is relevant to this one. The message may contain that string,
> because in the real world no one has to be bothered with such lame
> impediments.
>
> Change the software back! Personally I'd use ezmlm as a mailing list
> manager. I have no idea what awesome features this mailing list manager
> possibly has that's causing you to stick with it.
>
> On a side note looks like a machine on consensus.com has been attempting to
> send me mail, but they're DNS configuration is all messed up.
>
> Aug 18 10:32:07 gw tcp-env[935]: warning: can't verify hostname:
> gethostbyname(unassignedeng090.consensus.com) failed
>
> I have tcp-env verifying the hostnames prior to letting it through to my
> qmail setup. Normal spam filter.
>
> --
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> [ Maintainer of the Raw IP Networking FAQ http://www.whitefang.com/rin/ ]
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