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From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: ATTACK TO MY SYSTEM
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:46:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030924084616.GA16727@alpha.home.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200309240740.h8O7eZNI000474@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>

On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 08:40:35AM +0100, John Bradford wrote:
 
> RFC 822, section 3.4.7, makes clear that case is _not_ significant for
> these field names.  RFC 2822 doesn't change this.

Sorry John about the mis-information. Of course case is not significant,
otherwise we would simply not receive these mails. I should have said
"common usage" and not "protocols", since I really thought the former
eventhough I wrote the later.

> Just because no commonly used E-Mail application seems to generate
> uppercase field names, how do you know something like a password
> auto-responder script won't?

I don't know. It's only an empirical choice based on observations. Many of us
are more concerned by hundreds of mails a day than risking to get a rare
false-positive. But I agree, I should have been clearer.

I have nearly the same .procmailrc as the one Joern Engel proposed :

  :0 D
  * ^FORM:
  spam/swen

And I too agree that I have 0% false positive so far. But just like any filter,
use at your own risk...

Willy


  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-24  8:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-24  7:40 [OT] Re: ATTACK TO MY SYSTEM John Bradford
2003-09-24  8:46 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2003-09-24  8:59   ` Jörn Engel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-23 10:01 Mike Galbraith
2003-09-23 13:40 ` J.A. Magallon
2003-09-23 14:43   ` [OT] " Steven Cole
2003-09-23 15:50     ` Wakko Warner
2003-09-23 19:24       ` Wade
2003-09-23 20:06       ` Willy Tarreau

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