[SGVLUG] Mailman, SPAM Traps, and UCEProtect

Emerson, Tom (*IC) Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com
Thu Apr 16 09:31:03 PDT 2009


I should have read a little further before posting...

> -----Original Message----- of Emerson, Tom (*IC)
>
> From the wiki page you referenced:
>
> ...
> The key word here is "untainted", ...
> In this case, it appears they've been outed, and the spammers
> are using you in a joe-job fashion to cover their tracks.

Reading the wiki article a little further pointed out the same thing

Further, it links to an article on "backscatter"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_(e-mail)

And suggests two methods of dealing with it:

   1) reject the message at the time of connection
   2) don't reply to it (or rather, only send bounces to /plausible/ senders)





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