> You can look at the old BSD vacation script for an excellent reference > for what a vacation auto-responder should (and more importantly, should > *not*) reply to... but essentially it is: > > 1. Don't respond to: > > bulk/list mail > null senders > anything tagged as spam
So whenever a piece of spam pass undetected your sending your vacation messages to an innocent person ! Wow.. that's what I call backscatter. Find 1.000 systems configured as yours, send 1 message each with a forged return address and I have a small ddos ! Ok, I understand that using ASSP there is no such thing as a piece of undetected ube, but yours is exactly the kind of configuration giving me the most troubles in keeping my users mailbox clean when their addresses are used by spammers. And what you do is sending unsolicited email. Once a day or once per week, that's not the point. Your logic can be applied to c/r systems too, antivirus notification or to user validation callouts. I call them backscatter. And we filter them exactly the same way as other kind of backscatter. Again, I know you're not causing troubles because ASSP keeps you 99% sure that your vacation notice never go to forged address, that's not always the case. And if you ever seen a mailbox when a spammer forges a return address, you know that the most difficult thing to filter are all the exotic vacation notice (Abwesenheitsnachricht, Abwesenheitsnotiz, Autorespuesta, automatique d'absence du bureau, Automatisch antwoord bij afwezigheid, Periodo vacacional, Automatisk svar ved, ecc.). Some just quote the subject, so you have to inspect the body to try to understand in Chinese etc what they tell you. So at least pls use a subject so I can easily filter your email. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list Assp-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
