Re: that virus thing....

Matti Aarnio (matti.aarnio@zmailer.org)
Tue, 29 Jan 2002 19:14:24 +0200


I changed the subject, because clueless (least effort?) admins are
already filtering that subject, or something loosely matching on it,
and it causes tons of bounces.

On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 04:37:17PM +0000, Padraig Brady wrote:
> Joachim Steiger wrote:
>
> > is there a policy about such things? can't we just block all this bullshit
> > coming out of outlook-clients to lower the noise in here?
> >
> > regards
> > roh
>
> Does this mail suggest vger.kernel.org is running exchange or what?
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101224732423232&w=2

No. It means the real message originator, invisible because that
system apparently does not retain Received: headers, sent out:
From: <Administrator>
and VGER was the first machine receiving it, and following the letter
of RFC 822 about fully-qualified addresses in visible headers, and
qualified a non-qualified one...

> Padraig.

/Matti Aarnio
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