> From: Neil Schemenauer > Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 2:01 PM <...>
> I now have a SMTP reverse proxy that uses Spambayes and a > CDB database. Bouncing high scoring spam is necessary for me > because I can't review it all. That's great! I hope when you say "bounce" you actually mean reject at the end of data. Rejecting unwanted messages is the way to go, because even in the rare event of a false positive, the sender gets a DSN and there's no backscatter. If that's what you are doing, please ignore the following, which is for those who still send DSN's for spam. Bouncing spam after acceptance is a real problem, even though false positives would still get a DSN. The problem is that in the majority of spam, both the MAIL FROM: and the From: addresses are forged. Sending a bounce just abuses innocent third parties, in addition to giving the spammer a second chance to get their payload delivered. -- Seth Goodman _______________________________________________ spambayes-dev mailing list spambayes-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes-dev
