Justin Mason wrote: > What I do is confirm those spams. If they're going to shift the > work of spam-filtering onto innocent third parties, a "protest vote" > is appropriate in my opinion. > > --j.
Very well said Justin. My own views are a little more harsh, but the principles are quite similar. Quoting myself in an off-list message (and correcting a typo): I view mis-directed CRs, virus notices, and post-delivery spam notices as indirect spamming through deliberate, and willfully malicious, misconfiguration. Such admins are trying to solve their spam problems by foisting the problem into the mailboxes others. I get enough spam without getting notices for all of theirs too.
