Re: SPAM help

From: Barney Wolff (barney_at_databus.com)
Date: 08/20/03

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To: "Orville R. Weyrich_Jr" <orville@weyrich.com>

    On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 10:04:53PM -0700, Orville R. Weyrich_Jr wrote:
    > I have recently been getting a lot of bounce messages addressed to an
    > in-mail box on my FreeBSD system <no-spam@AmeriRoots.com>.
    >
    > These bounced messages were NOT sent by my system, because there is no
    > user account by that name (it is an incoming forward to the account I am
    > using to send this message).
    >
    > I believe that these messages are spam with a forged header. I am afraid
    > that my system will be black-holed by someone who thinks I really did
    > originate the messages.
    >
    > What can I do?

    Not a damn thing. Anyone who has the temerity to post to an email list
    or put an address on a website gets these. So far, I haven't noticed
    being blacklisted because of them - perhaps the blacklisters have the
    sense to notice that the From doesn't match the Received headers. If
    the volume gets too high, procmail is your friend. 

    -- 
Barney Wolff         http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf
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