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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

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