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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> http://www.utwente.nl/itbe
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