Recommended Spam actions

[Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions]

Bouncing Spam is a really *bad* idea, as a lot of spammers falsify headers,
return addresses etc. If you try bouncing them they'll bounce back to you.
Deletion is probably the best option


Mr. Michele Neylon
Blacknight Solutions
http://www.blacknightsolutions.ie/
http://www.search.ie/
Probably the cheapest ie's in Ireland
Tel. +353 (0)59 9139897
Fax. +353 (0)59 9139897

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> Sent: 01 October 2003 08:14
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Recommended Spam actions
>
> Hi All
>
> I am currently doing the following with spam:
>
> Spam Actions = striphtml deliver forward
> postmaster at sahara.co.za High Scoring Spam Actions = striphtml
> attachment deliver forward postmaster at sahara.co.za
>
> I have been monitoring this for a two months now since I have
> installed Mailscanner, and have added all the necessary
> addresses into my spam.whitelist.rules so I don't get any
> false positives any more. I would like to remove the
> "deliver" option and change it to "delete" or "bounce".
> What are you guys doing? Is it worthwile bouncing spam at all?
>
> Just as a note on the traffic side, I get about 300 Spam
> mails per day on a server that does about 5k of messages.
>
> Thanks!
> Gary
>
>
>
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