More details On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Gary Frederick <garyfre...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am setting up a server for our mailing lists. That server will not > be used for anything but those mailing lists. > > Can I turn off emailing notices back?
I was wondering if I could turn off sending messages back when an email is sent to a non-existent email address. I would want to have the log record what happened. > Would it make it harder for those sending spam? I was wondering if it would make it harder if spammers got nothing. > Would that help cut down backscatter messages? I was wondering... ;-) > Would it be a bad idea? Is this another of those ideas that those of us (like me) that do not know more than enough to come up with ideas that are actually a bad idea come up with? > > Thanks > > Gary >