So what about Joe Jobs then? You would prefer to beat some poor guy's server up when it's not his fault?
Travis -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 4:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Generating SPAM autoresponses. Marc A. Funaro wrote: > It's pretty likely that if you go forward with your plan to send responses to SPAM, you're going to end up on some tough blacklists to be removed from; this could really hurt the mission critical messaging that you are trying to preserve. > > Fighting spam is a constant fine-tuning process, not a set-it-and-forget-it proposition. You'll need to walk a line between false positives or allowing some SPAM to slip through; in your case, the latter might be better, combined still with a spam "review" account that is perused by someone at your organization, perhaps three times per business day, for false positives. Or, rather than have it fall on one person, move each SPAM message to a user's folder on the server for THEM to review regularly; they could even write some rules against their false positives that ensure that it doesn't happen again. (All this, depending of course on your SPAM solution/filtering techniques to begin with.) > > Please, please, reconsider auto-replies to SPAM... it's got real potential to cause you even more grief than the original spam itself. > > > Maybe I am misunderstanding the discussion. I will read up on this Imail auto reply to spam as I do not utilize Imail Anti-Spam features. I am saying that there is a bounce/response code generated to say that the message was rejected by some aspect of the filtering process. Whether it be a dnsbl, local killfile, local content filter or whatever. The sender gets a message as to why the mail was rejected whether the sender exists or not. This has been common practice for years and will remain in effect in my operation. Anyone using a blacklist or blocking email based on bounces that inform the sender as to why the mail was rejected is probably not communicating with a good majority of networks out there. Please inform me of the current blacklists out there that are listing servers sending 55* response codes back that explain why a message was rejected. I am aware of the fine-tuning process involved. Virus scanners that are still configured to notify the sender are a different story. Regards, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
