Tony L. Svanstrom wrote:
>  I stopped /dev/null:ing e-mails a day or so ago, just to check if there are
> any false hits there (partly due to spam passing SA and going to my inbox).
> 
>  Today when I sent a question regarding the number of hits a certain e-mail got
> by the CVS-version things started going wrong... Someone had an autoreply-
> system set up, and since this list wasn't whitelisted a message was sent to my
> e-mailaddress, which of course meant that the keywords in it triggered my auto-
> reply... and when I wrote a message to their autowhitelist-system I didn't do
> anything about the keywords, so then I got another autoreply which in turn
> triggered an autoreply from me...
> 
>  The simple solution to at least a part of this would be if SA could recognize
> it's own list of names of the triggered rules; so that it won't react to it's
> own headers when they're quoted in the body of an e-mail.

And thus give the spammers an easy way to whitelist themselves...

Matt.



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