Re: So, what about "uce@ftc.gov"?

[Bill Cole]

At 1:38 PM -0500 2/12/03, ted crane imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding:

The SIMS router can be used to reject (error or spamtrap,
and other more elaborate options) incoming mail from specific
domains:
   domain.tld = error
   *.domain.tld = error

The FTC provides an address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", and suggests
   <http://www.ftc.gov/spam>
   and then click on "info on how to deal with spam"
that spam should be forwarded to that address, to build a database
of spam ... for whatever purpose they'll put it to.  Hopefully
prosecution of the guilty, but this /is/ government, after all.

Obviously, the SIMS router could be told
   domain.tld = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   *.domain.tld = [EMAIL PROTECTED]

QUESTIONS:
1) Would this work; sending all incoming to the FTC? (yes, I suspect)

No.

That would make all mail aimed at that domain go to the FTC. It would also make all incoming mail from that domain be treated as if it was coming from the FTC.

The router is an address rewriter. It takes an address that matches the left side and replaces it with the value on the right side.

2) Would it open up any holes in spam protection?  (no, I suspect)

Yes. The router would now be treating mail from that domain as if it came from the FTC, and not applying any other later rules (such as routing to error) that would apply to that domain

and most important
3) What are the pluses and minuses of this approach?

Minus: increased bandwidth used by receiving and forwarding spam
Plus: help the FTC
Neutral: will they do anything useful to reduce spam?
Minus: possibility of sending non-spam to FTC

Your input, folks?

Big minus: it will not do what you want

I don't see any way in SIMS to force mail from particular senders to any particular place other than bouncing it.

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Bill Cole
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


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