[Linux-aus] Automatically punished for doing the right thing?

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Mon Oct 17 14:13:02 UTC 2005


On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 12:52:19PM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 August 2005 08:03, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> > You might have just got unlucky, refused a mail with a faked
> > bounce address, and the relay that was sending the spam on
> > obediantly passed those bounces onto the genuine article. 
> 
> Possibly. I refused the mail with a 550 at SMTP time. I s'pose I could 
> troll through Digital's logs and see what it thinks happened.

Or just move to silently rejecting mail you decide is spam, to prevent
people like myself from being flooded with fake bounces.
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