Spam Actions

[Thomas DuVally]

Do many spammer really use their return address in the From or
Reply-To?  A very large number that I see tend to have our own domain in
the From.  Will this really do more that annoy the innocent, or fill up
my postmaster account with more "User Unknown" bounces?

The choice is good, I'm sure, but I don't see how I would ever want to
use it.

Please correct me if I'm missing something here.

On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 05:02, Julian Field wrote:
> At 08:45 11/09/2002, you wrote:
> >On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 23:31:59 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> > >> It should still be possible to whitelist ones own IP's and the
> > >> postmaster/abuse/admin accounts.
> > >>
> > >Agreed, but I think it best to be judicious in generating a bounce for a
> > >black list hit. My preference is to only send the bounce back if it
> > >looks like a legitimate email message that just happens to originate
> > >from a black listed site. Spammers who take advantage of an open relay
> > >or those that fall for the "make money with your computer at home" could
> > >care less if the get a bounce (and most will never be delivered anyway).
> > >It's the innocent user that just happens to be at a black listed site
> > >that I'm concerned about.
> >
> >To make it even more difficult:
> >
> >Bounce the message referencing the blacklist if SA doesn't qualify it as
> >spam. Don't bounce when SA says it's spam.
>
> I'm starting to regret this....
> I need to keep it relatively simple or else no-one will ever work out how
> to use it, which is worse than doing nothing. I've got a fairly clear idea
> of what I want to do, which will hopefully keep most of you happy most of
> the time. If it detected as spam, add "bounce" to the list of things you
> can do, but allow you to put the contents of the X-MailScanner-SpamCheck
> header in the message (excluding all the SA rule hits).
>
> I hope that's good enough for most of you :-)
> --
> Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
>                              Southampton SO17 1BJ
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Tom DuVally
Lead Sys. Programmer
CIS, Brown University
p 401-863-9466