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From: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
To: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A spammer, wanting to poison our bayes seems to have found a hole at vger.kernel.org
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:41:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100131154152.GT3486@mea-ext.zmailer.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201001302313.19206.gene.heskett@verizon.net>

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:13:19PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greeting;
> 
> I just noticed that I have a poison bayes spam in my inbox cuz kmails filters 
> haven't a clue what to do with a message addressed like this:
> 
> to:linux-kernel-outgoing@vger.kernel.org
> 
> Is this a leak in the mailing list server, or a total forgery?

It was real, and bypassed Majordomo processing entirely.
Now I have added some extra "secret sauce" on all outgoing aliases.

> -- 
> Cheers, Gene

/Matti

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-31 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-31  4:13 Gene Heskett
2010-01-31 15:41 ` Matti Aarnio [this message]
2010-01-31 23:30 ` Matti Aarnio

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