Re: ignore the spam. don't reply to it.
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On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 02:49:03PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
> i think the proper thing is to "bounce" the spam .. and dont even
> receive it in your "spam folders"
> - if you bounce it, the sending servers get filled up
> with their own spam
No. Spammers operate by taking a list of email addresses, and one of
those addresses gets to be the "sender." The sendmail from, reply-to,
and From headers are all taken from this list, as well as being the
list of recipients. If you're going to bounce it, do it at the MTA
level and, if possible, have your MTA send back at least the headers
of the message causing the bounce response, so the victim has a chance
of reporting this "joe job."
nntp://news.spamcop.net/spamcop has pretty deep archives with multiple
instances of the readership getting victimised by spammers in this
manner, as well as the occasional URL to press sources mentioning this
problem as well.
The spammer won't see the bounces, and won't get thier servers filled
up with bounce messages.
> if you receive the spam in your inbox, its now a confirmed/valid email
> addy and they will add you to other "known-to-be-good" spam lists
Spammers don't care if mail bounces, though. This is well documented
on spamcop* and NANAE.
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