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Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
| On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 02:46:17PM -0500, Kyle Hasselbacher wrote: | |>1. People sometimes spam forged to appear from my domain, and they |>write back with a "screw you" email (and I'm talking about literally | | Gee, I'd think catching hate mail from joe-jobs is a perfect use of | TMDA. And if the end-user can't even be bothered to validate their | flame, I can't imagine why you'd think it useful to see it in your | inbox.
I think it's useful too. My point was that to demonstrate that practically everyone will reply to challenges. EVEN people sending "screw you" emails replied to challenges! If THOSE people will do it, ANYONE will.
|>2. I've seen messages blocked and stay blocked because the return-path |>on the message is bad. | | Again, this is a perfectly valid reason to block mail. There is *never* | a valid reason for email to have an invalid return path. People using | professional ISPs should never have to worry about it, and people | running their own mail servers should know better. So where's the | problem?
The problem is that (1) it's not really spam, and (2) nothing else blocks it. People running their own mail servers SHOULD know better, but some of them don't, and the only other indication that there's a problem is they don't receive bounce messages.
| I certainly wouldn't recommend TMDA to the technically illiterate, nor | is it necessarily the right tool for every environment. But I run a | number of anti-spam measures, including Bayesian filters, and honestly | find TMDA to be the single-most effective tool in my arsenal.
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