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Re: [suse-security] Vacation and out of office autoresponders



The Thursday 2004-07-01 at 01:16 -0000, Armin Schoech wrote:

> --> unfortunately, this seems to get more common these days on 
> suse-security. Most of the times I try to forward these kind of 
> auto-replies or error messages to suse-security-owner and ask them to 
> remove these addresses from the mailinglist. And I seldom get the same 
> vacation message twice, at least.

I didn't try this time, because five are a lot: perhaps is customary on
this security list to set autoresponders to the list :-P -- I mean, I get
none on the SLE list, and that one is much higher traffic than this one!

> > 	betreff Mailer Dämon - Unknown User
> > 	Die Nachricht an t.foecking#kreis-borken.de konnte nicht zugestellt werden. Der Empfänger ist hier unbekannt.
> >   (I know no german, so I have no idea what they are telling me)
> >
> --> It says: "User unknown" (also in the German part)

Who is unknown, I wonder, me or him?

>  
> 
> It's annoying but no real threat :-)

I know. But it doesn't say much good of their companies and sysadmins... 
How come the persons that care about security - because they read this 
list, right? - are so careless about their own security?

Even an IBM chap :-O

-- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson

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