[asterisk-users] Spammer direct replying to those posting on the users list

[Tzafrir Cohen]

[Intentionally ignoring the Reply-to header in this reply. And yes, this
is on-list]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 03:15:22PM +0000, A J Stiles wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 Mar 2014, Digium's Asterisk Development Team wrote:
> > We apparently have a spam bot subscribed to the list and replying
> > *directly* to anyone who posts on the list.
> 
> The e-mail address I use for this mailing list is 
> asterisk_list at earthshod.co.uk ; so I used the following procmail recipe.  This 
> filters out anything being sent to that address *without* a Received: header 
> mentioning lists.digium.com:
> 
> :0
> * ^To.*asterisk_list
> * !^Received.*lists.digium.com
> asterisk_unwanted

What if I wanted to reply to one of your messages off-list?

My message would end up in asterisk_unwanted.

> 
> (when I am satisfied that it does not lose anything legitimate, I probably will 
> change the last line to /dev/null .)

Or even worse.

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