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Re: spam return address backlash
From: Dick Jacobson <Dick.Jacobson () NDSU NODAK EDU>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:51:19 -0600
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Ken Connelly wrote: Our spam filters catch these so I am not certain of an increase. However, I would assume the volume would follow the increase in spam. Every now and then I get a question from a user that gets the bounce to email they didn't send. I have heard from a couple external users that are pretty irate that our bounces are going to them when their address was spoofed. They say that the RFC is wrong and we should just reconfigure our environment according to their specifications. In fact, that is SpamCop's contention also. We haven't done that yet.
We see this occasionally, but not often. And no uptick here in recent days/weeks. -ken Roger Safian wrote:Greetings, In the last couple weeks we have seen several of our addresses used as the from address in spam. This causes few serious problems, but does generate an increase in the number of spam complaints to our abuse aliases. It does cause a serious issue if the chosen address used by the spammer, also happens to be a real address in use here at Northwestern. We have heard of people receiving hundreds of bounced messages per day if this happens. We recommend filters, but there's little else we can do to stop this. My questions are two. Is this happening elsewhere, and if so, have you recently noticed an increase in this activity?-- - Ken ================================================================= Ken Connelly Associate Director, Security and Systems ITS Network Services University of Northern Iowa email: Ken.Connelly () uni edu p: (319) 273-5850 f: (319) 273-7373
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Current thread:
- spam return address backlash Roger Safian (Jan 09)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: spam return address backlash Ken Connelly (Jan 09)
- Re: spam return address backlash Conor McGrath (Jan 09)
- Re: spam return address backlash Russell Fulton (Jan 09)
- Re: spam return address backlash Mark Borrie (Jan 09)
- Re: spam return address backlash Gary Flynn (Jan 10)
- Re: spam return address backlash Dick Jacobson (Jan 10)
- Re: spam return address backlash Russell Fulton (Jan 10)
- Re: spam return address backlash Cal Frye (Jan 10)
- Re: spam return address backlash Roger Safian (Jan 11)
- Re: spam return address backlash Jeff Giacobbe (Jan 11)
- Re: spam return address backlash Roger Safian (Jan 11)
- Re: spam return address backlash H. Morrow Long (Jan 11)
- Re: spam return address backlash Cal Frye (Jan 11)
- Re: spam return address backlash Roger Safian (Jan 11)
- Re: spam return address backlash Cal Frye (Jan 11)
- Re: spam return address backlash Paul Russell (Jan 11)
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