preventing backscatter at the source

[Alex Neuman]

Exactly! I'm not bad, I'm misunderstood!

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like  
less than half of you half as well as you deseve!" - Bilbo Baggins

On Mar 29, 2008, at 12:13 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
>>
>> Alex Neuman wrote:
>> | Come on... like you've never forgotten to put someone important  
>> or your
>> | whitelist... Or sent a message from a less-than-reputable-IP... :D
>> |
>> | It's not configured incorrectly, it's not configured correctly  
>> enough!  :D
>>
>> If you use the sender info in ANY spam message after you did content
>> scanning and send a reply then you have a major problem in your  
>> config.
>>
>> There is no valid reason what so ever to bugger a sender about spam.
>
>
> I think you are misinterpreting what happened. If you look carefully  
> at
> the message (archived at
> <http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2008-March/083357.html 
> >),
> I think you'll see that he did not bounce a list message. He replied
> to a list message and his reply was flagged by MailScanner on the way
> out so the notice we received (with his reply attached) was a notice
> to the recipient, not a bounce to the sender.
>
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