[CLUE-Tech] mailman spam

[Charles Oriez]

At 03:12 PM 9/18/2003 -0600, Jeff Cann wrote:

>Is it better to discard or reject mailman spam (i.e., list postings from
>non-members)?
>
>I have been discarding, under the assumption that a reject will bounce the
>message back to the spammer.  I'm not sure if this is a good idea or not.
>
>I appreciate suggestions.
>Jeff

Most spam uses forged addresses. If the address exists at all, the spam was 
almost certainly not sent by the person the address belongs to. Chances are 
the forged address, if real, belongs to someone who pissed the spammer off 
by complaining about a previous spam.  In your shoes, I would either 
discard it without a response, or forward an appropriate 
complaint.  Complaint addresses for criminal spam (eg - Nigerian scams) are 
at http://denveraitp.org/legislative/spam.html and spamcop will handle the 
complaints to ISPs who host the web page, provided the open proxy or open 
relay, etc.

If the domain in the forged address has a tld of .net or .com and doesn't 
exist, forward it to verisign with a complaint that they are providing DNS 
for the domain :-)





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