On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 03:18:17 -0800 "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A spammer is forging several of SORBS spamtrap e-mail > addresses on their outgoing spams. The spams hit freebsd.org > which of course is bouncing them back to the sender, which > is in this case is the spamtrap e-mail addresses. This > triggers the SORBS autolisting. Well, in this case, how about avoiding bounces completely? Bouncing to a forged sender address is not the most clever (re)action these days. Spammers and viruses abuse this succesfully (you pointed this very well). I belive that deleting (maybe dropping, tarpitting or deffering - adjust to taste) these bad bad messages is a better idea. -- Adrian Pircalabu Public KeyID = 0x04329F5E -- This message was scanned for spam and viruses by BitDefender. For more information please visit http://linux.bitdefender.com/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"