----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc Perkel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jeroen van Aart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 4:20 PM Subject: Re: [exim] Out of Office and collateral spam
> I have a little different take on the out of office backscatter. Even > though it is somewhat annoying I actually count ham points for it when > it comes to my blacklisting because spammers don't host auto responders. > My take is that ham from people who have morons for email admins is > still ham. But to clarify, I do try to block spam generated OoO > backscatter, but I try to make sure that it doesn't count against the > host's IP karma score. The same is true of sender address verification. > Spammers aren't verifying addresses on incoming email. What about spam pretending to be OOO ? e.g. "Sorry I am OOO - but you can always order online", and how would you distinguish between the 2 ? All the best Phil _____________________________________________ Website Hosting from only £5.00 per month. www.medwayhosting.com - +44 (0)1634 856965 _____________________________________________ Digital & Traditional Printing, and much more www.medwayprint.com - +44 (0)1634 281199 _____________________________________________ -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
