Egads, since this morning when I changed the list, there were 70 messages held
and yours was among them.
On Monday 06 June 2005 15:23, Alan Brown wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> >> Don't do that. You can be almost absolutely sure that the sender
> >> addresses of spam are forged, and you would annoy many people.
>
> Strongly agree.
>
> > At the risk of annoying some people
>
> Like me, for instance. For some reason(*) a couple of my personal domains
> feature quite frequently in spam forgeries.
>
> >, I prefer to try to inform real users that
> > their message has not been accepted -- sending back a rejection message
> > is what 99.9% of all mailers do anyway ...
>
> No, what 99.9% of mailers do is reject at SMTP transaction stage.
> Accept-then-bounce is called outscatter and is rapidly becoming socially
> unacceptable, with technical means (ie, blacklisting) being used to give
> the diaapproval some teeth.
I don't see the difference, unless I am mistaken, in both cases the message
goes back to the same place.
> (*) Those who know me, know how much I've annoyed spammers and spam
> supporting networks over the last 15 years....
I'm not sure if you are talking about actively annoying spammers. The problem
with that sort of tactic is that they have far more interest in continuing to
spam than most people have in defending themselves and they have far more
means (IP addresses, bandwidth, time, ...) at their disposal than most
people.
--
Best regards,
Kern
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