Its "no biggie" in terms of there is nothing you can currently do about it as a recipient, so just filter and move on.
Ultimately, I completely agree with just about everything you said. Its backscatter, and its going to exponentially cause additional issues in future e-mail abuses. Thats were sender authentication technology needs to pick up the slack. On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Jason Gurtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If its someone valid I need to C/R with fine. If its garbage like >> what we are seeing here, it'll be deleted eventually after a time >> period. No biggie. >> >> I suspect these will only become more prevalent over time. Make your >> filters now. Save yourself the hassle. > > Maybe not... Typically, such systems end up on the major RBLs since they > usually are a source of spam outscatter. At this point they start to have > trouble communicating with business partners, receive political pressure, > and eventually turn it off. :) > > Also, the problems caused by C/R systems scale in a greater than linear > fashion based on the total number of sites that implement it. Think C/R > responding to C/R; C/R responding to noreply@; C/R responding to a forged > From:; C/R responding to... Saying it's "No biggie" is what allows this > problem to mushroom. In fact, believe it or not, spam its self is a > problem solely as a result of this very mentality at various levels of the > Internet infrastructure. I would encourage everyone to start dialog with > the offending partner's I.T. and your executive staff instead of letting > it slip by and continuing. Think of it as a "neighborhood watch" for the > Internet. People not caring is what has made the 'Net a dark and (quite) > bad place. > > ...though it is great fun to "authorize" delivery of spam that has forged > me as the sender; and I always do. :) DO NOT outsource your filtering on > me; you have been warned! > > ~JasonG > > -- > > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ > -- ME2 ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
