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spam deflection

This sendmail configuration does not appear to perform any kind of validity check on the mail sender to reject trivial UCE2 addressed to OttawaSun personnel.

This is not a security flaw, but may cause an increase in load due to the need to deliver this UCE.



Michael C. Richardson
1998-11-15