blocking out-of-office

[Chris Green]

>At 11:49 AM 8/2/2006, you wrote:
>
>>My employees report that when they have the out of office turned on they
>>receive more spam.....
>
>
>I don't know how the two are related. Most spam I see doesn't have a valid 
>reply address.
>
>My suggestion is to use a *nix based autoresponder. Have it only reply to 
>addresses in your address book. Or better yet, ditch the autoresponder.
>
Spam comes in and gets through filter
Out Of Office AutoReply goes out
Boiiiing! - NDR arrives in inbox
Therefore spam, in the implied sense of the word, would double.

It pollutes auto-whitelists too, but doesn't usually expose you to more spam 
due because bogus addresses are unlikely to be reused.