ChupaCabra said: > My boss is twisting off today because he got 350 messages marked [SPAM] > over the weekend. His Reaction is to "Bounce em all, Let the isps sort > it out." I tried explaining about forged headers and the myriad of > other methods spammers use to look like they come from someplace else. > Apparantly he feels like I am blowing smoke.
I don't have a link for you, but tell your boss to imagine if someone decided to dictionary attack every ISP they could find, using not only dictionary words, but every combination of letters up to 9 letters, i.e. aaaaaaaaa, aaaaaaaab, aaaaaaaac, etc up to zzzzzzzzz for every ISP they can find. And tell your boss that they intend to use HIS address as the reply-to address for the spam. Now ask him if he still thinks it's a good idea for ISP's to 'bounce' spam to this unintended victim - him.
