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List:       vuln-dev
Subject:    ScanMail Message (etc)
From:       Robert van der Meulen <rvdm () CISTRON ! NL>
Date:       2000-12-31 3:11:08
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[moderator: If this email is too much flamebait for the list, can you please
ask the subscribers to do something about this?]

Hi,

I do not dislike Trend's products, but i _do_ dislike content filtering.
Can the people subscribed to vuln-dev (and other securityfocus lists)
_please_  do something about their settings ?
I keep recieving these 'sensitive content' messages on posts i do, and
together with the vacation-messages they're becoming quite annoying.
The decision if something is 'sensitive content' does not lie with a piece
of software, at least not where a _public_ mailinglist is concerned.
Apart from that i don't like a mailer telling me that messages to this
public list are not allowed to contain a four-letter-word starting with 'f'
and ending in 'uck'. This is for the moderator to decide, not for a filter.
If you want to filter content, then don't subscribe to public lists that are
handled by your filter - that's one of the payoffs of using such a system.

inflammatory email can go to me, and (probably) not to the list.

Greets,
	Robert

The message concerned (all headers stripped except for From:):

> From: System Attendant <AASSVR3-SA@accurateairsystems.com>
>
> Trend SMEX Content Filter has detected sensitive content.
>
> Place = VULN-DEV@SECURITYFOCUS.COM; ; ; Robert van der Meulen
> Sender = Robert van der Meulen
> Subject = Re: execution inside of Perl reg ex?
> Delivery Time = December 30, 2000 (Saturday) 20:55:39
> Policy = Dirty Words
> Action on this mail = Quarantine message
>
> Warning message from administrator:
> Sender, Content filter has detected a sensitive e-mail.

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