On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Vic wrote:
> > If it's reliably classified as spam, of course. But otherwise, if you
> > haven't
> > been able to reject it at SMTP-time, the only RFC-compliant approach to
> > "dealing
> > with it" involves bouncing it in some situations:
>
> Yep. The choice is between becoming non-compliant with the RFC, or
> participating in a backscatter attack.
>
> That's not a difficult decision in my book...
Particularly as much of the backscatter in turn produces further
incoming backscatter. I finally abandoned any attempt at compliance syn
proper helpful responses to my bounces about 5 years ago when my
mailserver finally collapsed under the overload.
Sadly the spammers have wrecked the original reliability of email.
G.
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