Spam Bounce action issues

[Peter Peters]

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 23:37:06 -0500, you wrote:

>Well, I have to as I need to let legitimate senders know that their
>email did not get through and that they must contact us to get added to
>a white list. We have had many senders get added to the white list this
>way.
>
>I run a script every 15 minutes that cleans the queue of bounces
>attempting to get sent to invalid addresses.

That's not enough. That means that bounces to existing addresses get
through. And you will be blocked one time or another. Bouncing spam is
like spamming.

--
Peter Peters, senior netwerkbeheerder
Dienst Informatietechnologie, Bibliotheek en Educatie (ITBE)
Universiteit Twente,  Postbus 217,  7500 AE  Enschede
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