[clue-tech] Question for sendmail folks regarding bitbucketing email to certain accounts

[Charles Oriez]

At 10:01 AM 2/27/2005, Michael Riversong wrote:
>I simply don't use the HTML Mailto: function any more in the pages i
>manage.  That cuts out a lot of spam, since the bots that spammers use
>to pick up email addresses over the Web don't usually pick up plain text
>addresses.
>
>Not a very elegant solution, but it helps.

info is a non existent address, so it wasn't on a page to be 
spidered.  This was a spammer guessing at standard addresses. sales and a 
few other generic guessed addresses probably bounced the same spam.

I have two spams I'm processing through spamcop right now. both went to 
guessed addresses that don't exist. just as the OP said happened in his 
case.  both came from china through a server that doesn't block china.

Splashback like this is getting to be a real problem and has to be 
solved.  The other major splashback annoyance is from server level virus 
detection software that sends alerts to the forged addresses that were on 
the viral packages that they detected.






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