On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:49:59 -0600, ChupaCabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or does anyone think bouncing all spam is a good idea. > > Thanks ahead. > > -- > Michael H. Collins Admiral, Penguinista Navy >
Bouncing spam will do two things. First, it'll generate a lot of useless traffic, which may or may not cost you money, but will (slightly) increase the costs for everyone who's networks your bounces transit. The other thing it will do is queue up a lot of email in your outbound MTA queue. A lot of spam is sent with completely bogus usernames/domains/etc.., or is sent from domains that refuse connections to their MX records. You'll spend a fair amount of time purging invalid email out of your mail queue, which tends to be boring :) We did bounce spam for a while, but have since just let the end users decide what to do with it. Ultimately, this is the best solution, as what may be good for one person, may not be an option for another. It's not hard to create a rule to delete all email heading to your boss that is marked spam. Mike
