Hello Jernej, On Friday, May 30, 2003 at 12:36:22 AM you [JS] wrote (at least in part):
PP>> Some are nevertheless rejected after 'DATA' was submitted, the rest is PP>> accepted and if addressed to a non-existent e-mail-address the bounce PP>> is created THAN. JS> Bad idea, often abused by the spammers - they put address they want to spam JS> to MAIL FROM and then let the server bounce the message. Well, actually I've never ever seen this and for some reasons I doubt this will become popular and widely used (if even). First there's no guaranty the "misused" MTA really bounces. Some are configured to silently discard mails addressed to non-existent addresses. Second: the format of bounces ain't standardized. Chances are the "intended recipient" gets a message that's quite unusable, even for a spam message. Some MTA truncate bounces, other put so much status and delivery notification information in the bounce (those ugly little 'message.att', you know?) that the message itself is kind of 'hidden' between all this stuff. Qmail put a more or less long introduction text in front of a bounce, so any 'targeted' person would rather delete / trash the spam than read the message. Additionally the bounced message is put as complete source, so HTML spam, with those tiny, little, ugly, links and pictures is rendered completely useless. Even text messages are most the times rendered unreadable due to QP or Base64 encoding ... All this makes me assume: even if some spammers try to be clever, this will be no way out of their misery of "successful advertising". -- Regards Peter Palmreuther (The Bat! v1.63 Beta/7 on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 3) The important thing is not to stop questioning. ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62r | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
