Fwd: [unisog] procmail rule: sobig.f

[Julian Field]

At 22:11 21/08/2003, you wrote:
>On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 21:45, Timothy VanFosson wrote:
>
> >I just saw this on the UNISOG mailing list.  Looks like changing to a
> >custom header IS a good idea.
>
>I hope those of you who subscribe to lists where ideas like this are
>being posted are taking the trouble to reply to posts like this,

May I second this. I can't be subscribed to all these lists, and this is
*Very* bad publicity that I could really do without right now.

>pointing out that they are likely to block much legitimate mail.  There
>are plenty of MailScanner users who don't subscribe to this list and
>will be using the default configuration.
>
>Innocent user's mail being blocked because their admin/ISP is using
>MailScanner is not good for the reputation of MailScanner.
>
>Julian, might I be so bold as to suggest a news item on the webpage
>advising users to switch away from the default headers?  Maybe something
>there about the Sobig issue too, for non MailScanner users trying to
>find out what MailScanner has to do with Sobig (suggest you reference
>the X-MailScanner: Found to be clean header so that search engines index
>it for those searching on that exact phrase).  Just an idea...

Check out www.mailscanner.info and click on the big link near the top of
the page.
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Julian Field
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