On 2011-11-15 20.55, Raymond Lillard wrote:
> On 11/14/2011 06:28 AM, James J. Lippard wrote:
>> That is, my spamd.conf now looks like this:
>> uatraps:\
>> :black:\
>> :msg="Your address %A has sent mail to a ualberta.ca spamtrap\n\
>> within the last 24 hours":\
>> :method=file:\
>> :file=/etc/mail/traplist.gz:
>
> I question the wisdom of identifying the source of
> your trapping info. It outs ualberta.ca as a trap.
No, it doesn't. It might out University of Alberta as an organization
that fights spam but there is nothing that says that the *domain*
ualberta.ca itself contains any of the spam trap addresses.
> Spammers who actually read (I know most don't) reply
> messages will know to black list ualberta. Those
> with infected machines who somehow might get see the
> message need only know their machine is compromised.
Spammers usually never get to see those messages, as they operate
through compromised mail servers or pc:s and most likely use fake
From: addresses anyway.
> Knowing who trapped their spam does not enable the
> owner of the compromised machine to do any thing
> they wouldn't do anyhow. The still need to clean
> up their machine.
They won't get the messages either...
Regards,
/Benny
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