Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> writes: > Don Armstrong <[email protected]> writes:
>> If you sign up for mail from mailing lists, just discard mail that you >> don't want to read that comes in from us with Priority: bulk or List-* >> headers instead of bouncing it. A mailing list is little more than a >> glorified mail forwarder: bouncing forwarded mail is wrong. > I don't control my mail server, so I can't make it do that. For whatever it's worth, Stanford's main campus servers never bounce spam for basically this reason. We either silently discard it if it's extremely high-probability spam or we deliver it tagged and let the recipient filter it or not as they choose. Bouncing spam is a reliable way to mailbomb some innocent person, and as someone who's been mailbombed by such things repeatedly, I don't like the experience. This is true even when you do it properly at the SMTP level, since there are numerous ways in which spam gets forwarded, particularly in a university context where there are a lot of departmental mail servers and a lot of forwarding back and forth to one's server of choice. None of the attempted reworks of the SMTP protocol to address this have really caught on. I can't speak for CS, however; I'm not sure what they do. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
