Spam filter?

[Chris A Czerwinski]

On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 10:45, Don Levey wrote:
> fedora-list-admin at redhat.com wrote:
> > On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 13:33:45 +0000 Paul Furness
> > <paul.furness at vil.ite.mee.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I thought of that, but the headers are a bit confusing. The FROM
> >> header is saying "postmaster at redhat.com", but the originating mail
> >> server isn't obviously one of theirs:
> >
> >> Received:  from ns0.webmasters.com (ns.serverleasing.com
> >> [66.118.156.161])
> >
> >> My guess is that Redhat (or whoever they buy their server space from)
> >> was twiddling with their spam filter this morning and it went a bit
> >> wrong for a while.
> >
> > on reflection, i think you're correct. someone installed a change
> > without
> > adequate lab testing beforehand. on the one hand, it's kind of sad, on
> > the other hand, sometimes when people do that they pay me a lot of
> > money to clean up the mess afterwards, which isn't so sad.
> >
> 
> While this is possible, webmasters.com has been implicated in spammish
> activities in the past.  They also seem to have a click-through affiliate
> program, which makes it curious that the message (I got one too) tells
> you to click through to their site to repost the message.
> 
> The redhat mx machines are in netspace near to webmasters (both in 66.
> subnets -
> 66.118.156.0 - 66.118.157.255 for webmasters, 66.187.224.0 - 66.187.239.255
> for
> redhat), but this probably doesn't mean a thing.  What's the possibility
> that
> an address at webmasters is subscribed to the list, and trying to get
> click-throughs?
> 
>  -Don

I too, received a bounce.
Yet I see that my message appears on the List as I have received

On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 10:24, postmaster at redhat.com wrote: 
> Sorry, but your last message to fedora-list at redhat.com was rejected by our Spam Filter for the following reason:
> 
> Your message was not addressed to the correct recipient. The message was addressed to:
> 
> F5_Unwanted_To_Address: fedora-list at redhat.com
> 
> To ensure proper delivery, please use the following link within 24 hours to send your message through our web based interface:
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> vermankwo92j4n4najdj....
> 
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Chris Cz