-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+eYFvJ5vLSqVpK2kRAtUGAJ48otgF1aH3jY7LhQWbpoNY+wCTxACgiUMu rDUDZkKAcw8LRWbzzvt2Exo= =aHZ6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
