Morning,
On 27/07/2007, at 11:52 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:
On 27/07/2007, at 11:06 AM, Rob Davies wrote:
Morning
On 25/07/2007, at 10:07 AM, Adam Hewitt wrote:
Do not "bounce" these or any SPAM email. The sender is usually
either a
bogus account name/domain in which case you are only causing load
on your
ISP's server, or in the case of viruses the sender is a harvested
email
address out of someone else's address book, therefore bouncing it is
returning it to the wrong person.
Bouncing causes no more hassle to your ISP than what has already
been caused by this harvested address, and by bouncing the address
you have alerted email servers and spam lists not too send
anymore. Hence, halting further usage of said address unless of
course the original spam was sent individually to specific
addresses and not as part of a batch job or cc'd. Either way you
should not receive anymore Spam from that address and others
within their network, including ISP - network provider.
Cheers!
`Rob...
I agree with Adam .... Do not "Bounce" SPAM emails .... Delete
them immediately ... don't click on anything in them!
Pretty much all spam uses fake sender addresses, so that bouncing
does nothing but generate yet another unwanted message to an
otherwise uninvolved third party.
If everybody bounced spam, then that would double the number of
unwanted messages out there.
Yes it does create another message, but only the header information
is sent back to the address. More importunately though this address
is now removed from the spammers arsenal. Hence, one address removed,
and eventually ISP's network administrators - engineers would be
forced to configure servers more thoroughly. Thus forcing them to
become more astute to what is actually running on their networks also.
IT Security is a good website to read for ways to Eliminate Spam
from your Inbox.
One is complaining about resending emails again, actually read this
paper correctly because it recommends sending more than one and the
actual cost factor not just monetary but actual time and testing
would be staggering. Use the software as it was originally designed
to do and it will relieve most of the pain itself. Actually configure
the config scripts instead of accepting a holistic approach, ban the
use of HTML email this is the number 1 problem, as spammers not only
get addresses, but confirmation some one has received relevant email.
Email is a form of a letter - text.
More importantly people whom setup email servers or email clients
should stop trying to find simple solutions and correctly setup said
servers-clients. So as to stop false email addresses being created on
their networks, then blaming others for doing it. Do something about
it, augh!... I do not have the time, but obviously have the time to
be part of the cause.
Bounced emails on these servers does no more or less damage than it
originally created!
<http://www.itsecurity.com/features/email-inbox-security-011107/>
Cheers,
Ronni
Cheer!
`Rob...
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