Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 08:02:41 +0100 From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> To: galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu, che@bein.link Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Junk mail on list reply Message-ID: <55768F91.1030604@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <61481.128.135.70.2.1433799590.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> References: <1647612.8LsUtL0D9u@thinkpad> <61481.128.135.70.2.1433799590.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu>
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On 08/06/2015 22:39, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Mon, June 8, 2015 4:22 pm, Maxim V Filimonov wrote: >> Recently, I started getting junk emails every time I reply to someone in >> any >> of the FreeBSD Mailing Lists. The messages look like the one attached. Can >> anyone do anything with that? Can I consult anyone to fix that? Why is >> that >> happening after all? > > Hi Maxim, > > from what have been discussed earlier about similar events related to > posts to this list I can say: > > 1. these apparently foreign (with respect to the list language) e-mails > appear to be auto-replies (by some likely subscribed to this list) > > 2. domain sina.com is notorious for these things (I for one consider it > rudeness to allow any auto-reply sent to mail list, as well as messages in > foreign language - at least I would never allow myself to do neither of of > these two things) > > 3. list admin(s) are more likely to be reluctant to block the whole domain > sina.com from this list (or their list server); I would respect their > decision, even though it is different from what I would do. > > The best you probably can do is to block all mail from sina.com (including > that re-sent through this list) on your end. You can be a little less draconian than that. Set your mail filters to delete any mail from sina.com with a subject line containing "自动回复", which is the common feature of these mails. (Google Translate tells me that's Chinese for "Autoreply".) -- Those who do not learn from computing history are doomed to GOTO 1
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