[195] in Intrusion Detection Systems
Re: IDS Mail Loop Problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lance R. Bailey)
Mon May 15 16:03:20 1995
From: "Lance R. Bailey" <zaphod@bcu.ubc.ca>
To: ids@uow.edu.au
Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 10:06:57 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <199505151426.IAA16617@ncar.ucar.EDU> from "Greg Woods" at May 15, 95 08:26:25 am
Reply-To: ids@uow.edu.au
>This is *direct* result of directing all replies to the list by default
>(creating a "Reply-to:" header containing the list address). I know we just
>had a flame war about this, but hopefully this direct evidence about why
before there was major domo i wrote mailing list s/w (obligatory
plug: http://www.bcu.ubc.ca/~zaphod/src/2cents.tar.gz :) and it
could define lists into "chatty" and "nonchatty". chatty lists have
all the messages go out so that replies aim back at the list - just
as does ids. For some lists this is a good thing, it promotes
discussion and information sharing. whethor or not it's a good
thing for ids is a different discussion.
however, when you set up a list as "chatty", you need to
1) set an Error-To: line
2) NOT auto-distribute mail from "users" postmaster, daemon,
mail-daemon, mailer-daemon or the other variations that
get generated (i have a list somewhere). these addresses
are only error-message sources and/or error query
addresses.
i don't know what s/w drives the ids list, but it needs some
rethinking. 2cents is available if you want (i still maintain it
- haven't a chance to check out mjr. domo), as is major domo (which
is so popular is must be doing it right).
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