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Epic fail!
Someone, block him.
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On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Epic fail!
Someone, block him.
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Rather, can someone fix mailman so these sorts of things don't come through? Usually they don't...
-Chad
Chad wrote:
Rather, can someone fix mailman so these sorts of things don't come through? Usually they don't...
Mailman discards posts with the header "Precedence: bulk", which is set by the classic UNIX autoresponder "vacation". However, there are many autoresponders which don't set any such header, or X-Mailer or anything else. Then, the best you can do is to set up regex-based filters to heuristically detect such mails. However, the configuration is list-specific and it would be quite a bit of mucking around to set up a filter for all lists.
Every time I post to mediawiki-announce, I get several autoreplies direct to me, despite Reply-To being set. I've rarely seen two emails with the same subject line:
* Bedankt voor je e-mail/Thanks for e-mailing (Re: [MediaWiki-announce] MediaWiki security update: 1.15.2) * Re: [MediaWiki-announce] MediaWiki security update: 1.15.2 * Abwesend: [MediaWiki-announce] MediaWiki security update: 1.15.2 * Your message has been rejected. * Abwesenheitsnotiz * Din sag er modtaget hos IT-ServiceDesk og er blevet tildelt ID ...
Those were the subject lines for the autoreplies to the last two announcements. If these autoreply scripts actually did respect Reply-To, then we'd see this sort of junk on the list a lot more often.
So filtering is not as trivial as you might think.
-- Tim Starling
On 21 March 2010 22:47, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
So filtering is not as trivial as you might think.
How about an anti-flood filter than stops emails that are identical to an email sent within the last hour? That ought to stop people auto-responding to themselves, at least. I think we can live with one auto-response per person (which is all most clients send, anyway, AFAIK - this really is a matter of a broken client, rather than a broken list).
Thomas Dalton wrote:
How about an anti-flood filter than stops emails that are identical to an email sent within the last hour? That ought to stop people auto-responding to themselves, at least. I think we can live with one auto-response per person (which is all most clients send, anyway, AFAIK - this really is a matter of a broken client, rather than a broken list).
It would only work if the autoresponder isn't quoting the previous text, as some do.
That seems a filter with little collateral damage, since you usually don't want to send the same body several times, even when you do it (you thought it didn't get through, etc). The only issue i foresee is when the replies come from different people, eg. several "I agree" replies.
Thomas Dalton wrote:
On 21 March 2010 22:47, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
So filtering is not as trivial as you might think.
How about an anti-flood filter than stops emails that are identical to an email sent within the last hour? That ought to stop people auto-responding to themselves, at least. I think we can live with one auto-response per person (which is all most clients send, anyway, AFAIK - this really is a matter of a broken client, rather than a broken list).
If you have such a filter script, and a proposed Exim configuration, then I'd be happy to review it or to pass it along to the relevant people.
-- Tim Starling
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