Re: Spam handling

["joe" <joej () rocknyou com>]

Greg, please re-read your email/this thread. There is/was/isn't anything
about
replying to a SPAM message.  At what point do you see any sort of items
regarding
a reply to a Spam email?
sorry for the static, just wanted this to be clear....
Martin hit it on the head, just use a/your larger providers SMTP as a
forwarder.
no fix, but a way around fer now.
Cheers
-Joe

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregh" <chows () ozemail com au>
To: <nanog () merit edu>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 12:13 AM
Subject: Re: Spam handling


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <suresh () outblaze com>
> To: "Gregh" <chows () ozemail com au>
> Cc: <nanog () merit edu>
> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 2:06 PM
> Subject: Re: Spam handling
>
>
> > Gregh  writes on 4/29/2004 9:27 AM:
> >
> > > A guide to how to be spammed.
> > >
> > > 1) Click on most spam emails to let them know your address is to be
> spammed.
> > > 2) Failing that in 1, click on a "remove me" so they know you are
still
> > > around.
> >
> > Folks, you are missing something here.  He was trying to write to SBC at
> > an address they asked him to write to, and that address bounced when he
> > emailed it.
> >
> > He's not doing what you think he's doing.
>
> With all respect, he has replied to a remove me. Then he is saying the
> address doesn't exist. I send messages back, routinely, from this address
as
> if my ISP's own mailer daemon had sent them. The address he emailed may
WELL
> exist but it is set up to respond with a standard "User not known" style
> reply.
>
> I wasn't missing anything. What he was missing is as I said before and the
> above paragraph. The remove me address may exist and all email to it may
be
> kept and read by a spam engine and the FROM address added to the spammer's
> database BUT the spam engine is set up to send "User Unknown" replies back
> to everyone. Easy to do with a simple program most people could write.
Even
> Macafee have worked out how to do this.
>
> Greg.