At Tue, 01 Jun 2004 18:52:00 +0300, Stephen Biggs wrote: > Most spam that I am receiving nowadays has a real email address in the > "reply-to" or "from" fields... the problem is that the email address is NOT > that of the spammer, rather that of an innocent third-party or worse yet, > someone who came to the attention of the spammer by complaining about his > spam in the first place.
I get about 1000 spams week (to me as a user). About 50% of the spam I receive is rejected as unrepliable at the MTA level (i.e. without sending a message). About 70% of the remaining bounce to the envelope sender as undeliverable. That gives me 85% confirmed unrepliable without working very hard. Of course, even if 15% of people were getting confirms for messages they did not send, this would be pretty annoying. But I do not believe this to be the case. In any case, either your experience is qualitatively different than mine, or you mean "most" in a pretty unusual sense. db _________________________________________________ tmda-workers mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-workers
