Matus UHLAR - fantomas writes: > > Richard Smits wrote: > > >Hos safe is it to pump up the score for the ANY_BOUNCE_MESSAGE ? > > >Is it bug free, so I can give it 5 or 10 points ? > > On 18.04.08 09:19, Jason Haar wrote: > > So you are wanting to mark ANY bounce, out of office, or mailing-list > > related email into your organization as spam? If you want to do that, > > then sure! :-) > > > > My own investigations would show that would not be a good idea. I think > > you meant "BOUNCE_MESSAGE" instead - but even that is catching stuff > > that isn't backscatter. > > yes, since (according to previous discussion) VBounce was not designed to > mark backscatter as spam, but to mark (suspicious) bounces as bounces. > It probably needs many changed to be reliable in the way most users expect > - to catch baskscatter while not catch other
this may be a matter of definition. In my opinion, "out of office" messages, C/R requests, etc. sent in response to spam forging your address as the sender -- I would define those as backscatter. As the packager of that ruleset -- yes, it is designed to catch backscatter. --j.
