Classifying bounced messages

[Bill Wohler]

Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us> <bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Bill Wohler wrote:
> 
> > I was just wondering, is it a good idea to classify bounced messages
> > that are in your "unsure" category as spam?
> >
> > With the recent sobig virus, lots of crap is mailed with my address used
> > as the sender so I'm getting a lot of messages that are from
> > Mailer-Daemon that include the virus.
> >
> > Should I be classifying these messages as spam as I would if I received
> > the virus directly, or by doing so, do I increase the chance that I
> > might miss a legitimate Mailer-Daemon message?
> 
> I worried about this for a few seconds and then decided to file all
> unwanted Mailer-Daemon messages into the spam bucket.  It hasn't
> stopped me from receiving valid Mailer-Daemon messages.

Thanks Bob. That seems to be the consensus.

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