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RE: [Full-Disclosure] Fighting useless notification mails

From: Steve Wray <steve.wray@paradise.net.nz>
Date: Wed Mar 31 2004 - 00:06:42 EST

> Marc Ruef
>
> Viruses and worms that spread as mail attachments are filling our
> inboxes day for day. Most of this nastly little monsters are able to
> generate random or faked from addresses.
>
> I receive dozents of automaticly generated notification mails that
> presume I sent a not allowed attachment.

What amazes me is that none of that crap gets flagged as spam!

I'd have thought it would be fairly easy for a bayesian filter to
spot.

And it *is* spam. Both unsolicited and commercial; they are advertising
their product.

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