Spam Bounce action issues
Max Kipness
mkipness at GENIANT.COM
Thu Jun 3 15:14:26 IST 2004
What is the suggestion then to notify legitimate users that their email
has been stopped and to contact us without sending out these messages to
spoofed addresses?
Max
> >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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