blocking out-of-office

[Billy A. Pumphrey]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Chris Green
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 1:34 AM
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: RE: blocking out-of-office
> 
> >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.
> 
> 

Makes sense.  I also assume that Outlook 2003's client side filter sends
out a Out of Office response to the filtered spam that ends up in the
junk mail folder.  True?