How do others do it?

[Brent Addis]

Although, upon rethinking, the way spam uses random from addresses, 
could indeed spell trouble on the internet at large. Unless he has that 
sort of thing blocked elsewhere.

Brent Addis wrote:
> I think you may have misread it.
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> 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."
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> 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.
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> Gerard Seibert wrote:
>> On Tuesday December 05, 2006 at 05:14:11 (PM) Rick Chadderdon wrote:
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>>> Denis Beauchemin wrote:
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>>>> The bounce message explains that we block spam because we want to
>>>> preserve the good reputation of our University.
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>>> 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.
>>>     
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>> 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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