Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:14:54 +0200 From: Adi Pircalabu <apircalabu@bitdefender.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mx2.freebsd.org in SORBS, AGAIN! Message-ID: <20050215121454.2be41735@apircalabu.dsd.ro> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNMEGDFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <20050212042318.GA34223@fw.farid-hajji.net> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNMEGDFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 03:18:17 -0800 "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote: > A spammer is forging several of SORBS spamtrap e-mail > addresses on their outgoing spams. The spams hit freebsd.org > which of course is bouncing them back to the sender, which > is in this case is the spamtrap e-mail addresses. This > triggers the SORBS autolisting. Well, in this case, how about avoiding bounces completely? Bouncing to a forged sender address is not the most clever (re)action these days. Spammers and viruses abuse this succesfully (you pointed this very well). I belive that deleting (maybe dropping, tarpitting or deffering - adjust to taste) these bad bad messages is a better idea. -- Adrian Pircalabu Public KeyID = 0x04329F5E -- This message was scanned for spam and viruses by BitDefender. For more information please visit http://linux.bitdefender.com/
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