[CLUE-Tech] Mail Delivery (failure clue-tech@clue.denver.co.us)

[Chris Schock]

>
>>Or better yet some way to automate dealing with them?  It'd be neat if
>> kmail
>>saw something like this coming in and could just forward it to
>> abuse at wherever
>>from the _real_ source address,  but I don't think my simple attempts to
>> deal
>>with filtering just now are quite up to that task just yet.
>>
>>
>
> Watch out.  Last time I notified abuse@ I ended up getting attacked more.
>
> Angelo

Emails to "abuse@" addresses are rarely effective for two reasons:

1) Automated systems and panicky people send so many messages that it's
impossible to reply to them

2) A lot of the times they are incorrect (for example someone faked the
sending address)

I'm of the opinion that automated complaining is a bad thing. I have no
idea what kind of spam the rest of you get, but I get around a hundred a
day and if I kicked off an automated complaint every time one arrived that
was either a scam or virus the priorities of my complaints would rank
right above whale doodie in the ocean to whoever received them - and
that's if they even got read.

It's somewhat sad to have to relegate emails with nasty payloads to being
unimportant, but because they are so commonplace they just don't get much
attention. We all have responsibilities to protect our own computers and
shouldn't rely on the upstream to do it for us. When that happens, they
turn into Big Brother.

Does anyone else share this point of view?