[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [FW1] Autoreplies sent to the mailinglist
<rant> I am subscribed to a large number of mailinglists mainly development and security related. Some of them are low traffic some of them generate a few hundreds of e-mails a day. There isn't a single mailinglist amongst them however that generates as much autoreplies as the FW-1 mailinglist. Aren't we supposed to be a bunch of security aware people managing firewalls? Then why are so many people yelling "He, I won't be looking until xx/xx, you've got my e-mail address and domain from the e-mail headers, please go ahead and crack my site. I'll do the forensics when I'm back in a week or two." If you go on vacation to a far away island, do you attach a paper to your window saying "this house will be empty for the next few weeks"? I'm sure most of you will have a backup administrator to look after the firewall when you're gone but unless you're working for a very big company (s)he is probably not going to know as much about the system as you do. I you realy have to use vacation messages then please configure it properly so it won't send replies to mailinglists. </rant> Sorry for using up bandwidth with this message but I realy got pissed after having received the 20th autoreply message. Nico --------------------------------------------------------- "It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry." --------------------------------------------------------- Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [email protected] ================================================================================ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================================================
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