am I just naive about spam

[der.hans]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Jean Francois wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 11:39:09AM -0700, Victor Odhner wrote:
> Orig_Msg> Nope.  Spammers forge their headers to avoid getting any replies at
> Orig_Msg> all, since if they gave a valid "From" address they would get bombed
> Orig_Msg> by angry recipients.  They don't care how many rejections bounce
> Orig_Msg> back to their hijacked originating sites, or to their forwarding
> Orig_Msg> sites in Korea or Spain.
> Orig_Msg> 
> 
> As long as lazy admins refuse to close open relays it
> is proper to bounce all SPAM back to them and have them deal with their
> problem.
> 
> The biggest problem I have is dealing with admins in foreign countries.
> I do not speak Greek, Urdu, Japanese, etc. and those countries are
> running woefully outdated mail servers in production environs.

Get the anti-spam places to translate a couple of phrases and then wrap
your responses in gettext :).

ciao,

der.hans

> Not accepting the email at all saves my disk space and saves me the
> time of having to decipher forged headers to complain.
> 
> See: http://www.mail-abuse.net/
>      news://news.admin.net-abuse.email
>      news://news.admin.net-abuse.sightings  <--for updating filters
>      http://www.claws-and-paws.com/spam-l/  <-- SPAM-L mailing list FAQ
> 
> 

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