[clue-tech] spam-jacked

[Adam Bultman]

When my domain started getting joe-jobbed (technically not a REAL joe-job, 
since my site sucks and there's no monetary or blackmail value in bugging 
people like that) the other thing I could do was button up and try to 
weather the storm. I took off the catchall, which probably ticked off the 
company who hosts me since their server became host to all sorts of fun 
bounces, and, for the people who inevitably reponded to the spam or got 
pissed at me 'for spamming them', came up with a fairly professional 
sounding explanation of what was going on, how I'm not responsible, and 
finally, why people should never, ever, never, ever, ever, EVER respond to 
spam.  EVER.

Adam


On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, David L. Willson wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 17:53 -0700, Keith Hellman wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 04:04:37PM -0700, David L. Willson wrote:
>>> Does anyone have an idea what to do when a spammer uses a valid email
>>> address, that you're responsible for, as the return address on their
>>> spam?  My users (and I) are getting flooded with NDRs and rejection
>>> messages from anti-spam systems that think we're sending things we're
>>> not sending.  Any ideas?
>>
>> I've had the same issue as well.  I used to procmail these into
>> /dev/null (the procmail rc file was auto-generated from a list of known,
>> valid addresses at the domain).  My newest ISP provides the same feature
>> on their end, so I don't see these messages anymore.
>
> How do you differentiate between a real NDR and an NDR from a message
> you never sent?  Similarly, how do you differentiate between a genuine
> polite spam-filter notification that "I'm not passing your message on."
> and one that is in response to a message you never sent?
>
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