On Jun 3, 2009, at 12:50 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:

XXX We used to classify bounces to the site list as bounce events
for every list, but this caused severe problems.  Here's the
scenario: [email protected] is a member of 4 lists, and a list
owner of the foo list.  example.com has an aggressive spam filter
which rejects any message that is spam or contains spam as an
attachment.  Now, a spambot sends a piece of spam to the foo list,
but since that spambot is not a member, the list holds the message
for approval, and sends a notification to [email protected] as
list owner.  That notification contains a copy of the spam.  Now
example.com rejects the message, causing a bounce to be sent to the
site list's bounce address.  The bounce runner would then dutifully
register a bounce for all 4 lists that [email protected] was a
member of, and eventually that person would get disabled on all
their lists.  So now we ignore site list bounces.  Ce La Vie for
password reminder bounces.

I hope we've all learned by now never to bounce spam back to the "original" sender!

-Barry

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