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From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
To: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
Cc: overseers@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: [macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl: Re: [postmaster@sourceware] failure notice (fwd)]
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 13:52:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000621165154.A25378@cygnus.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <20000621135200.OwPUf7jEAPS50vwTFgweRCcMooZ2zTJOnNTuo8q6yxY@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11996.961619982@upchuck>

On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 02:39:42PM -0600, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>
>  In message < 20000621115409.A16014@cygnus.com >you write:
>  > Would it make sense to allow mail with a "Resent-To: somemailinglist@source
>  > ware.com" header through to the mailing list?
>It would probably require twiddling ezmlm-reject.c (search for "to:"), but
>wouldn't be all that difficult if we need to do it.
>
>However, I would be leery of adding this since it would give spammers a
>way to work around the to/cc filter.

But, if they are willing to put effort into generating a 'Resent-To', couldn't
they generate a 'To' just as easily?

cgf

  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-06-21 13:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-30  6:08 Chris Faylor
2000-06-21  8:54 ` Chris Faylor
2000-12-30  6:08 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-06-21 13:50   ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-12-30  6:08   ` Chris Faylor [this message]
2000-06-21 13:52     ` Chris Faylor
2000-12-30  6:08     ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-06-21 14:08       ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-12-30  6:08 ` Jim Kingdon
2000-06-21 13:47   ` Jim Kingdon
2000-12-30  6:08   ` Jason Molenda
2000-06-21 13:57     ` Jason Molenda
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-12-30  6:08 Jason Molenda
2000-06-21 14:01 ` Jason Molenda
2000-12-30  6:08 ` Chris Faylor
2000-06-21 14:06   ` Chris Faylor

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