On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 09:26:09PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: | What's with all these messages today? Consequence of the worm?
Some people have really broken/misconfigured software in their mail
chain. That software notices the worm, then figures it is a good idea
to shout "I FOUND IT! I FOUND IT!" like a 2-year-old to every address
it finds in the headers. The result is that when a mailing list
dutifully passes on a worm, the list is automatically blasted with
even more noise. Fun, eh?
For your sanity, I recommend using a bayesian filter[1] and training it
to recognize such noise as spam and filter the spam into a junk
bucket.
-D
[1] spamassassin has this capability, as does spambayes. I'm
currently using the latter even though it isn't packaged in
debian.
--
Misfortune pursues the sinner,
but prosperity is the reward for the righteous.
Proverbs 13:21
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