How do others do it?

Gerard Seibert gerard at seibercom.net
Tue Dec 5 22:44:54 GMT 2006


On Tuesday December 05, 2006 at 05:14:11 (PM) Rick Chadderdon wrote:

> Denis Beauchemin wrote:
> > The bounce message explains that we block spam because we want to
> > preserve the good reputation of our University.
> Unfortunately, since nearly all spam comes from forged addresses, your
> bounce message is explaining it to the wrong people.  Assuming you mean
> "bounce" the same way I do.  I get a ton of "bounce message" spam
> because of forged messages, even though I use SPF.  Annoying.  I hope
> I'm just misunderstanding you, because if not, you're a spammer, even if
> you aren't aware of it.

Worse, continuing this 'backscatter' might very well get his University
black-listed. SPAM and virus infected mail should be silently discarded.


-- 
Gerard


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