[clo-devel] Project proposal (Handling Spam (Was Payment Past Due, account))

[Nikodemus Siivola]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 03:23:56PM -0500, Anthony Ventimiglia wrote:

> about writing a script to send a reply to all spammers that their mail
> was rejected as spam, and possibly telling them a way to resend so it

Of topic, but... don't do that!

Spammers routinely forge their addresses, usually using a live
spammee's address as their own. (So it passes reachability tests, etc.)

So if you reply to spam, you're only generating *more* spam: spam that
goes innocent people.

Cheers,

 -- Nikodemus
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