From: "Matthew Yette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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.
So instead you facilitate joe jobs. Your network WILL get /dev/nulled
on the first joe job I receive from it, you know. And I am not the only
person who will do that.
{^_^}
