On 9/27/05 5:22 PM, "jdow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Please do not do this Matthew. It is a sign of VERY poor network
> management. It is also an excellent tool for spammers executing joe
> jobs. When I find myself joe jobbed the ISP that is bouncing goes into
> my procmailrc file with a redirect to /dev/null. I *NEVER* see anything
> from them again. People running real sendmail servers tend to place
> your address into their blacklists and drop all mails from your site.
>
> This is a feature that should be taken right out of SpamAssassin
> completely if it really bounces spam back to the "purported" (and
> virtually always forged) sender or postmaster.
>
> {O.O} Joanne said that rather more politely than she is thinking
> about it in her head. I've been joe jobbed this way. It is
> frustrating beyond belief.
>
>
I understand your point of view completely - but I wouldn't call it poor
network management. It's a policy decision - and one that we deem necessary.
We filter email for a lot of people - and the fact that we don't use a
quarantine system means that if something legitimate gets bounced, the
sender needs to know about it.
--
Matthew Yette
Senior Engineer (NOC/Operations)
M.A. Polce Consulting
315-838-1644
