On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 02:24:04PM +1200, Mark Foster wrote:
I have a couple of mailboxes im bouncing because of spam volume. Depends on the creed of the spammer I guess.
Why not throw alway all of that email then and never bounce it?
Some genuine dont see the point in continuing to spam non existant addresses and stop. Some set fake reply-to headers and dont care.
Nope. I don't mean to be rude (but I can't help who I am)... I don't believe this for a second. Unless some is like 0.0001% or something.
For those that bounce-the-bounce and come back to postmaster, I start firewalling their MTA from my network.
Seems pointless, spam comes from all over.
Solves the problem :P Course, ISPs might not necessarily want to do that... (we all know how controversial RBLs are.)
IMO, RBLs are almost useless now. I stopped using all of them a while ago and now spam works to *my* advantage. FWIW, I have several domains and addresses which get *only* spam, I mean nothing but spam. Never any real email. And I get a lot of spam, hundreds if not thousands of messages a week sometimes. Now, I used to reject all this email --- yet it *never* stopped coming, even after a couple of years of nothing but rejection. I removed A and MX records for months, that didn't help either. Within minutes of restoring those addresses functionality, I got spam. None of my efforts to prevent this even slowed the rate at which it comes. This is why I simply don't believe mailwasher works, because I know it *doesn't* :P Now I accept all this spam to these 'spam trap addresses'. I use it to train filters which I then apply to my inbox. I use no RBL because I *want* all the spam I can get. The more spam I get, the better I train my filters that keep spam out of my inbox --- and it works great so far. IF there is a popular spam going about that my filters would miss, chances are one of the spam-traps will get it first, and thus my filters will adapt to it before it hits my inbox. --cw - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog