Re: A spammer, wanting to poison our bayes seems to have found ahole at vger.kernel.org

From: Matti Aarnio
Date: Sun Jan 31 2010 - 10:42:18 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> 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
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