From: "Evan Platt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Evan Platt said:
> > I don't have a link for you, but tell your boss to imagine if someone
> > decided to dictionary attack every ISP they could find, using not only
> > dictionary words, but every combination of letters up to 9 letters, i.e.
> > aaaaaaaaa, aaaaaaaab, aaaaaaaac, etc up to zzzzzzzzz for every ISP they
> > can find. And tell your boss that they intend to use HIS address as the
> > reply-to address for the spam. Now ask him if he still thinks it's a
good
> > idea for ISP's to 'bounce' spam to this unintended victim - him.
>
> Let me follow up to myself (please allow myself to introduce... myself.) I
> posted a message to a yahoo group last week. A few minutes later, I get a
> e-mail that my message has been marked as Spam by some software, and if I
> wish to confirm my identity, I must click on a link to that companies web
> site (tracking numbers and all that in the URL). And, of course, this will
> add me to the persons allowed list so I won't have to do it again.
> Needless to say, I will NOT do that. This company could then sell its
> lists of CONFIRMED addresses for a goldmine.
>
> I then posted to the list, asked if anyone else had received this message,
> and a number of people did, and for the most part, no one clicked on the
> link. So now there's some 1d10t wondering why he's not getting any mail. I
> know this isn't your boss'es intention, but it sounds like he wants
> anything marked as spam deleted? Not a good idea, IMHO.
> (Baby, bathwater).
>
> Evan
I consign such tweebles to the bit bucket in procmail before they ever
get to SpamAssassin. I very seldom review that very slowly growing set
of rules. If someone reforms I'm still not interested in the critter.
{^_^}
