Please don't thread steal. You replied to an existing thread of conversation and changed the subject line. That is impolite. Now your message right in the middle of Martin Bene's thread about "Learning from forwarded mail". How are they related? Many people won't even read your message because they will not have been interested in the first message it was a response to and will have skipped the entire thread. Please just send a new message to the list so that it starts a new thread of discussion.
Ralf Guenthner wrote: > management wants me to set up an auto-reply to mails marked as spam by SA. I > told them that this is a very bad idea, since Gack! > a.) reply addresses are fakes and not working most of the time anyway > b.) if they DO work, we will just notify the spammers that the address they > bought/harvested is working > c.) most spammers are from the U.S. or other foreign countries and wouldn't > give a damn about German law ( not to mention that they wouldn't be able to > read/understand German) > > Did I forget anything? a.b) Many From: addresses are spoofed as from legitimate users. You will reply to them creating a form of collateral spam since they never sent the original spam but only your spam. (Viruses are using spoofed From: addresses and this is the same problem for people with virus detectors autoresponding.) People like me that receive those autoresponder emails usually turn right around and send them back to both abuse and postmaster with a complaint stating the above reasons. I think that those autoresponders are enough to put a site on an RBL. So you run the risk of being blocked for being unneighborly. Bob
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