Filters That Fight Back

[Simon Huggins]

Salut Tom!

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 07:11:21PM -0400, Tom Anderson wrote:
> Perhaps a more effective means of punishment would simply be a bounced
> mail.
[..]
> The main problem with this method is effectively deciphering mangled
> headers and sending the bounce to the appropriate address rather than
> some patsy whose been the victim of masquerading... that would just
> cause additional problems.
[..]
> Also, you could include a punishment payload on the bounce consisting of
> anything from a large graphic or document to a virus, thus compounding
> their bandwidth and processing load, and maybe even shutting down their
> system.
[..]
> The spammer may send out a million 10k emails, but get back a million
> 1M emails.  That would certainly hurt.
[..]
> And regular Joes getting an occasional 1M email is nothing to be
> concerned about.

Have you not received bounces for spamming runs done with a forged
envelope sender of your address in the past?

Ok, so someone spams using your address to spam from and you'd be quite
happy to get the million 1M emails then would you?


Simon.

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