>
> Automatic reporting - that's another thing entirely. As was pointed out in
> previous replys, the user
> community is not always accurate in reporting what is legit spam, and what
> is/was requested
> or "permitted". I tend to report manually, although I am writing some code
> to semi-automate the
> process. The program picks out domains, TLDs in URLs and IP addresses (in
> spam), puts them in edit
> windows, and then allows me to view the message. At this point, I can click
> a button to report the
> offending hosts/ips/etc. or not. But, it is semi-manual and therefore
> involves time. The tradeoff is
> accurate reporting to the various block lists.
>
I guess I'm still not being clear. There are 120K emails a day coming
to INVALID EMAIL ADDRESSES THAT NEVER EXISTED. Its not a case of a user being
fickle, its a case that they are emailing addresses that NEVER EVER ACTUALLY
EXISTED. About 1 ever 3/4 of a second. So running them through ANYTHING is
counter productive since , atleast in my eyes, if you try to email an email
address that never existed... ITS SPAM. Its not things the user ever sees/knows,
etc. I have in my sendmail virtusertable:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] bingo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] bango
[EMAIL PROTECTED] bongo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] irving
[EMAIL PROTECTED] nobody
The user doesn't even SEE the emails, and processing what they consider
spam I really don't care about. But getting 120K emails to *@ that are
absolutely
known spam... I would like to help the community out by reporting them to every
system possible. Yea, if the added benefit is the mail that bingo, bango, bongo
and irving gets filtered a little better... I won't complain at all.
Tuc
