Bogus bounce message.

[Doug]

I agree, responding to any spam is a bad idea, on the other hand what you 
shoulld be doing if you are running a mail server like sendmail is instituting 
an access list that blacklists the mail BEFORE it is accepted. The server sends 
a reject back to the sending system saying that mail is rejected and the 
actually message is never accepted. Also there are many services setup to do 
this via your email server. The idea is to reject it BEFORE it is accepted. I 
would say 2/3's of my incoming mail is rejected in this way. BOGO still nets 
about 200 spams a day after that! If you don't have the luxury of running your 
own server and your provider does not have any spam rejection then your only 
choice is to catch it and trash it!

Responding in any way to a SPAM after it is delivered just makes you a spammer 
also and in most cases it will just go in the bit bucket or be undeliverable. It 
may also be used to show that hit a good mailbox and you will in turn get more 
spam.

 
At last check 90% of Internet email was spam!!!

Doug Crompton
WA3DSP
www.crompton.com



----- Original Message ----
From: Sven Hoexter <sven at timegate.de>
To: bogofilter at bogofilter.org
Sent: Fri, November 19, 2010 9:56:57 AM
Subject: Re: Bogus bounce message.

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 09:33:12AM -0500, John Culleton wrote:
> Is there a way to set up bogofilter to automatically generate a bogus 
> bounce message in reply to spam? Over time this would reduce the 
> incoming from certain spam lists. I use kmail on Slackware Linux 13.0. 

What is a bogus bounce message, what should it look like and what should
it achieve?

With relation to spam and faked senders bounces are usually a bad idea
and only contribute backscatter which causes even more pain and problems.

Sven
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