On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 09:58:50AM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote:
> Michael D Schleif <mds AT helices DOT org> [2003:09:01:22:12:01-0500] scribed:
> > And, why are they re-sending post-spamassassin'd spam, that they
> > received from amanda mailing list, *BACK* through amanda mailing list?
> > 
> > Who can stop this?
> > 

A good choice would be the list member who is doing the resends,
or his email administrator.

I've had the following correspondence with the former:


= Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 00:29:08 -0400
= From: Mark Abene <phiber AT phiber DOT com>
= To: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
= Subject: Re: amanda user mailing list "resends"
= 
= Not my setup, CommuniGate's recommended setup.  This was a recent down-grade
= from sendmail by my client.  Please send me the most recent of these
= "transgressions" as a forward with full headers.
= 
= Regards,
= -Mark
= 
= 
= On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 11:22:01PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
= > SpamAssassin is a good thing.
= > 
= > What is not a good thing is your set up for spamassassin
= > causes the spam to be sent back to the sender.  In the
= > case of a mailing list like amanda-users, that means
= > the spam gets sent to everybody a second time.  And the
= > second time, spamassassin will not pick it up as spam!!
= > 
= > Please change your email configuration to stop sending
= > spam back to amanda-users.  It has happened about ten
= > to twenty times.
= 

I sent one of those "transgressions" to Mark but have heard no more from
him.  Your incident was dated a holiday weekend after my communications.
If it continues then other action is warranted.

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