On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 the voices made Jess Anderson write:

JA> Tony Earnshaw:
JA> >Kelly Annette Jameson:
JA> >
JA> > > Does anyone know how to setup Spam Assassin to automatically count all
JA> > > messages over a certain size as spam so they can be bounced back?
JA> >
JA> > Isn't this something your MTA should be configured to do? Mine (Exim
JA> > 4.12) can, without using SA.
JA>
JA> I thought the general wisdom was that it's *never* a good idea
JA> to bounce spam, and especially not under program control. that
JA> it accomplishes no good (addresses are fake anyway) and has
JA> the potential to do harm (directs mail to innocent parties or
JA> provides opportunity for denial of service attack). So the
JA> right advice would be: Don't Do That!
 That's why you let the MTA do it; it'll just reject the mail instead of
bouncing it.

 Well... it's not a solution without victims, but it is a lot better then using
some kind of broken auto-reply.

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