> I'm guessing that someone has a mis-configured spamtrap that they > wound up bouncing one of these messages to. There seems to be a lot of > misconfigured spamtraps out there...
Just to bring this up... In my opinion any spamtrap whose address appears on a Web page is misconfigured, unless you're really careful with it. The reason is that the Klez virus and its variants like to scan the victim's IE cache for addresses. So Klez sends out a bunch of messages, grabs your spamtrap address for the "From" address, and the replies - including things like out-of-office messages and majordomo confirmations - get reported as spam. Worse, for mailing lists that aren't double-opt-in, Klez can and does subscribe your spamtrap to valid mailing lists. If your spamtrap is set to send out replies to the spam it receives, it will send replies to Klez messages, some of which have a mailing list address as their From address, and get subscribed to even more mailing lists. It can even complete a double opt-in in some cases. Now not only does your spamtrap report all of the list's messages to Razor, it also gleefully sends a reply to each and every message on the list! Trust me, list admins love this. After using a Web spamtrap for a couple of months I found all sorts of innocent mailing lists piling up in the 'spam' corpus. So I dropped that one and now only use old addresses and never-used addresses (spammers love to guess) as spamtraps. -- Michael Moncur mgm at starlingtech.com http://www.starlingtech.com/ "I think the world is run by 'C' students." --Al McGuire ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility Learn to use your power at OSDN's High Performance Computing Channel http://hpc.devchannel.org/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
