To put it nicely, I'd say this idea could use some refining. It's very common for spammers to either spoof the source address or not check the mail once spam is sent out.
Since my ratio of real to false-positives is about 300:1 per week, I'd be sending out 300 wastes of resources a week. They'd sit on my mail server (or someone else who didn't have anything to do with the spam anyway), taking up cpu, disk, bandwidth, etc. The result would be some very upset mail admins. It'd be better to tune spam assassin to reduce your false positives then to implement your idea. Jay On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Tony L. Svanstrom wrote: > > I've set up my filters to reply to all that's caught as SPAM, mostly to be > able to have them somewhat strict without risking that friends and/or work- > related e-mails are deleted without any warnings. > The goal is a riskfree system that is 100% invisible to me; and that's simple > enough to work as a user-installed system (not that I don't have enough access > to do it some other way, I just want it to be as "foolproof" as possible; so > that I can set it up for others without it breaking easily). > > The question is if this might result in any longterm problems, like helping > innocent people getting mailbombed, ISPs that doesn't understand what's going > on, automagically getting blacklisted due to identical bodies being sent to a > lot of people and/or replying to a spammer using a spamtrapaddress as from... > > Personally I'd say that this won't do any damage that wouldn't have happened > anyways, and that if any it will create an awareness about SPAM and what can be > done to battle it (I intend to include an URL to a how-to-do-it-yourself page); > but any and all comments are welcome... > > > /Tony > -- > Per scientiam ad libertatem. ©1999-2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Random URL (3/10): > <URL: http://www.apple.com/powermac/ > 15 Gigaflops of something *BSDish... > -- Random epigram: (8325/11671) > System restarting, wait... > > > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
