Spam Bounce action issues

[Scott Silva]

If your users are on a particular subnet, then you can whitelist that
subnet.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Max Kipness" <mkipness at GENIANT.COM>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 7:14 AM
Subject: Re: Spam Bounce action issues


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.
>
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> Dienst Informatietechnologie, Bibliotheek en Educatie (ITBE)
> Universiteit Twente,  Postbus 217,  7500 AE  Enschede
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