Some really newbie quesitons.

[Peter Peters]

On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 11:24:49 -0400, you wrote:

>However, as far as damage goes, given that undeliverable addresses will
>also generate 550's you're pretty much always going to have the problem of
>returns from "one step further upstream". By 5xx ing spam you're creating
>no greater scale of problems than would otherwise exist for the Joe job
>victim than if you did no spam scanning at all. They're going to have to
>deal with floods from all relays and forwarders involved anyway.

If you don't do spam scanning the spam ends up in the mailbox of your
user. If you bounce on spam it is another one that ends up in the
mailbox of the victim. While it might be just one in a hundred but that
is the same (small) spammers say: "My single spam is just one in a
hundred. That doesn't matter."

--
Peter Peters, senior netwerkbeheerder
Dienst Informatietechnologie, Bibliotheek en Educatie (ITBE)
Universiteit Twente,  Postbus 217,  7500 AE  Enschede
telefoon: 053 - 489 2301, fax: 053 - 489 2383, http://www.utwente.nl/itbe

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