How do others do it?

[Brent Addis]

I think you may have misread it.

I believe he is bouncing back to *internal* hosts, hence the "Our 
internal smtp servers bounce (yes, bounce!) spam messages back to the 
sender.  I don't want any obvious spam originating from my network."

Note the " I don't want any obvious spam originating from my network." 
part. It probably doesn't affect spam coming in from the internet at large.



Gerard Seibert wrote:
> 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.
>
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