It's pretty likely that if you go forward with your plan to send responses to SPAM, you're going to end up on some tough blacklists to be removed from; this could really hurt the mission critical messaging that you are trying to preserve.
Fighting spam is a constant fine-tuning process, not a set-it-and-forget-it proposition. You'll need to walk a line between false positives or allowing some SPAM to slip through; in your case, the latter might be better, combined still with a spam "review" account that is perused by someone at your organization, perhaps three times per business day, for false positives. Or, rather than have it fall on one person, move each SPAM message to a user's folder on the server for THEM to review regularly; they could even write some rules against their false positives that ensure that it doesn't happen again. (All this, depending of course on your SPAM solution/filtering techniques to begin with.) Please, please, reconsider auto-replies to SPAM... it's got real potential to cause you even more grief than the original spam itself. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 6:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Generating SPAM autoresponses. > > > Marc A. Funaro wrote: > > > As I am sure others will reply, you are not going to want > to do this. Most spam spoofs the FROM line, which means > you'll be sending your autoreply to either (1)a non-existent > address, causing a bounce back to you, or (2) some poor sap > that's been joe-jobbed. Either way, if you do this, there's > a good chance you'll be creating more unnecessary > spam-related messages and network traffic yourself. :) > > > > Anyone, feel free to correct me if I am wrong or if i > misunderstood the question... > > > > Not correcting you as I feel there is an abundance of garbage traffic > generated by bouncing mail for the reasons you indicate. > However it has > been my experience that bounces are a necessary evil when > implementing > spam filtering . From time to time legitimate mail will be > caught in the > process and a bounce is the only way the sender will be aware of a > problem in a timely fassion. Unfortunately there are folks out there > relying on email for mission critical communication and I do not see > that changing any time in the near future. > > Regards, > > John > > http://www.ispservices.com > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
