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Re: Lots of (easily recognisible) spam sent to the BTS today



Hi Javier,
On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 12:05:58AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure if anybody else is seeing this but I have seen (just today) 28
> spam messages sent to the BTS. I've received them because they were all sent

I've seen BTS spam before and ask the list admins about it.

> to (at least) the 'www.debian.org' pseudo-package, and I have reported all of
> them in the BTS' spam interface [1]
> 
> They also seem to share common carachteristics:
> 
> a) Subject fits the regexp: ".* note|letter|message\. You .* read\."
> b) The MTA it claims to be: "X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.*"

I've seen this X-Mailer Header used with recent spam. Is this a 'real'
used mailer, if not, it maybe an easy regex to stop this spam.

> c) The first two lines of the body fit these regexps:
> 
> The great .* are .*\.
> The increase is up to 70%.*
> 
> I'm pretty sure this spam has probably found a place in many other BTS
> entries, I was just wondering if the BTS admins have noticed and placed
> appropiate measures in place (I'm sure they have, but just in case).
> #101772, #102186, #101772, #101870, #180196, #180118

Does BTS mail have identifiable header and/or body characteristics to
determine what is legitimate? Does all mail to the bts come from: debian.org
mailers, reportbugs or some identifable sources that would make
legitimate email identifable?
cheers,
Kev
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