[LINK] Who are you?

[Stephen Loosley]

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Dear Kate, Craig and Linkers

Sincere apologies everyone for my Link mechanism assumptions
and the following over-reaction. And to Kate and Craig especially
many many thanks for your kindness and your info-tech expertise.

This morning, who wouldn't just love Link?

Steve Loosley :-)



---- On Sat, 20 Jul 2024 09:39:48 +0930 Craig Sanders wrote ---

> On Fri, Jul 19, 2024 at 03:38:14PM +1000, Kate Lance wrote:
>
> > The list discussed a few weeks ago that it was probably an automatic message
> > from the mailing-list software because of some unfortunate incident at ANU.
> > It's certainly not personal. If ANU wants to do this - for a mailing-list
> > on their infrastructure whose benefits we've enjoyed for free for decades -
> > then of course they can.
>
> This seems to have started in March this year.
>
> My guess is that it's inserting that scamwatch message to any message with
> a From: header containing an outlook.com or gmail.com address (maybe other
> well-known e-mail account providers too).
>
> (and it's probably happening at ANU's mail servers, not the mailing-list
> server - lots of spam/scam/virus email gets sent directly to recipients, not
> to lists)
>
> Given the amount of spam from those domains, someone probably thought this was
> a reasonable compromise compared to simply blocking such mail.
>
> I disagree - IMO, you should either accept or reject a message, never change
> it. But a) I can understand why someone might think it's reasonable especially
> when they're receiving mail for many thousands of probably-not-tech-savvy
> and possibly clueless or gullible staff and students and b) it's not my mail
> server so I have no say in it.
>
> I know on my own mail server I wish I could just block mail from those domains
> but there's also a lot of legitimate mail from them, too much to simply block
> them. Instead, most mail from outlook & gmail gets caught by my header and
> body check anti-spam filters (which costs a lot more processing power and time
> than simply blocking the domains during the SMTP session) and ends up in the
> quarrantine folder.
>
>
> I just grepped my current LINK inbox, and Stephen is the ONLY person sending
> from an outlook.com address in the last several years (since 2017 or so).
> And there's only one person sending with a From: header matching @gmail.com.
> They're the only messages that have had the scamwatch warning added.
>
> Stephen, you can test this by trying to send a message from an alternate
> address if you have one. You may have to subscribe from the alternate first,
> depending on whether LINK only accepts mail from subscribers or not.
>
>
> craig
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