Re: [sa-list] Re: What's the POINT?

["Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <da...@prime.gushi.org>]

On Sun, 3 Oct 2004, JamesDR wrote:

> I would personally block messages that are a loop from me to me. I don't 
> foresee any real reason to have this loop enabled.  On my mail server this 
> probably blocks 10% at the mail server.

Hrmmm, no I actually find this happens when I reply-all and was included 
as one of several recipients.

-Dan

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> Justin Mason wrote:
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>> Dan Mahoney, System Admin writes:
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>>> Wanted to share a recent email that I got, that SpamAssassin didn't pick 
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>> I've been seeing more and more of these -- and the %MAKE_TEXT[5] ones
>> too.   I think it's spammer users who don't know how to use their
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Re: [sa-list] Re: What's the POINT?

[Bob Proulx <bo...@proulx.com>]

Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
> JamesDR wrote:
> >I would personally block messages that are a loop from me to me. I don't 
> >foresee any real reason to have this loop enabled.  On my mail server this 
> >probably blocks 10% at the mail server.
> 
> Hrmmm, no I actually find this happens when I reply-all and was included 
> as one of several recipients.

Or someone is on a mailing list like this one.  The message goes out
of your site and then comes back in again.  I deployed that rule to a
large group without realizing the above mailing list problem and it
created a large number of false positives.

Bob