On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 04:43:43PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from David Jardine: > > > > What worries me is the spam that is sent out under my name. Just > > I get bounces from clueless mail admins all the time. If they'd spend > two seconds scanning the original's Received: headers, they'd know I > had nothing to do with it. Blast it back to those fools and tell them > to read email headers, and turn off their idiotic mail-bot until they > do (if at all).
The messages I've been receiving (was receiving - I haven't had any today - perhaps they're using your address now) were polite (automated, I imagine) statements of inabilty to deliver the message - no accusations of spamming. There must be masses of email flying around all the time with mis-typed addresses; isn't the appropriate response to return it to the apparent sender? That's a real question, not a rhetorical one. The worry I had was about the reject messages I didn't get. If the Peoria Inter-Denominational College of Neo-Tibetan Goldfish Juggling received thirty of my dollops of spam, who else was getting them and was I being put on blacklists by, well, "clueless mail admins" and "fools" with "idiotic mail-bots"? I would gladly help to educate the people I do get reject messages from, but what exactly do I tell them? > Spammers are forging From: addresses, have been for at least a year, > and anyone who looks at mail headers can see whether it's been done. > Spamcop isn't fooled by moronic tricks like this. It drills down and > finds the real culprit. This message comes to you with a forged From: address courtesy of the rewrite rules in /etc/exim/exim.conf. Excuse me, there was a knock on the door. Must be Spamcop... If you don't get a message then you'll know I'm in jail. David -- David Jardine "Running Debian GNU/Linux and loving every minute of it." -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
