----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Stearns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


> Good afternoon, Raymond, all,
> (Raymond, you probably already know this, but I wanted to quickly
> cover it for other people that may also be considering whether or not to
> use AWL).
>
[SNIP]
> That's a different issue.  If the customer used _forward_ rather
> than _bounce_, SA treats the entire message as coming from that email
> address and class B network, so yes, the customer's AWL score will be
> hurt.
> This is why people are encouraged to _bounce_ the original
> message, so the sender email address is still the original one, and then
> won't hurt the customer.
> http://www.stearns.org/doc/spamassassin-setup.current.html#autoreporting
> http://www.stearns.org/doc/spamassassin-setup.current.html#restrictreport
> http://www.stearns.org/doc/spamassassin-setup.current.html#redirect

Probably unrealistic to expect customers to know how to "bounce" a message.
Much better to simply not spam filter critical e-mail accounts like
postmaster/abuse/support/sales/etc.

Bill

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