RE: [FW1] important note to OOF autorepliers

["Cunningham, Andy" <acunningham@FW1-NOSPAMrsasecurity.com>]

Folks

This is very, very simple.

Fix the mailing list software to put Precedence: bulk in the headers, and
then Exchange (the usual source of OOFs) will not respond.

Easy, simple, in one place.

Can we return to discussing firewalls now.

AndyC 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve [mailto:yahoo@proph.co.uk]
> Sent: 16 September 2001 19:32
> To: fw-1-mailinglist@beethoven.us.checkpoint.com
> Subject: RE: [FW1] important note to OOF autorepliers
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > > To encourage this, I am going to take some action.   Next
> > > time I post to the list, I am going to take the email
> > > addresses of everyone who sends me OOF replies and give them
> > > to at least one spam source.
> 
> I posted a message recently and got 50 out of office replies and 10
> non-deliveries.
> 
> Why not move the list to Yahoo groups? They have filtering 
> that stops this
> sort of thing.
> Infact the groups I run off a Linux majordomo cobalt RAQ has 
> rules to stop
> out of office replies and non-delivery bounces.
> 
> This Checkpoint list is the ONLY mailing list I'm subscribed 
> to that junk
> like this happens. Until it is resolved I will not be posting 
> again. To be
> perfectly honest, from having used Firewall-1s SMTP proxy in 
> the past and
> this mailing list I do not think Checkpoint understand 
> internet email and
> SMTP properly.
> 
> Is there any value keeping this list on Checkpoint servers? 
> From what I can
> tell checkpoint themselves do not respond to mssages. Yahoo 
> groups as well
> as supressing the bounces and out of office replies maintains 
> a searchable
> web archive.
> 
> Lets move it.
> 
> -Steve
> 
> 
> 
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