Spam Bounce action issues

[Alex Neuman]

Store them in a quarantine for a month and peruse the list once or twice a
day. I've got it set up like that at some of my clients' servers.

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Of Max Kipness
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 9:34 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Spam Bounce action issues

> So that means we can start answering questions like this with
> a simple "search the archives" again? No problem. :-)
>
> There are several reasons why this horse gets beaten over and
> over again:
>
> - For most of us it is simply wrong (not to say stupid in
> most circumstances) to bounce spam.
>
> - Most people who are bouncing spam do not understand the
> implications. Many do not even seem to know that senders are
> faked or that this is actively used as a joe job attack.
>
>
> Therefore everytime such a person simply writes a "how do I
> bounce spam"-like question, we feel obliged to "answer" and
> tell him/her all the implications.

I for one understand the implications. The problem is I CANNOT allow
critical messages to possibly disappear in a black hole. I'm not sure if
there is a 100% accurate way of assuring no false-positives, but I'm not
there yet. I guess maybe it depends on what type of business you are
handling. I have a financial brokerage firm that won't tolerate it.

I get many emails back from companies that state that their newsletter,
etc, was requested by a particular user, and can we please white list
them. I check with the user, and they say, "Yes, we want to get it", so
I white list them.

Thanks to some suggestions by Alan, I think. I'm now using the high
scoring setting to just delete and not bounce at 20+ I'm guessing
(hoping) there will be no false positives above that.

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