[antispam-f] Re: Spammers spammed

  • From: Steve Clark <sjclark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: antispam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:06:40 +0100

In article <2008bce17c8e4f.Dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
   Dave Barnett <as10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> One of my Lists contains parts of subject lines of bounce messages.  
> This is used to delete bounces that originate from spam sent from bots 
> that have used fake addys with my domain.

> My check today, (another thread) looking at the Weight of deleted 
> spam, threw up a number of bounces that had a Weight >10 i.e. they 
> were from spam sources (as judged by block lists).  I didn't bounce 
> the bounces (I don't approve of that anyway) so they are not still 
> circulating in ever increasing circles.  It makes you wonder if there 
> are a lot of these messages going back and forward eating bandwidth.

I have had about 80 of these today.  They are difficult to block because
there may be a genuine failure in there.

-- 
Steve Clark
                                                   
{sjclark@xxxxxxxxxxxx using a 129Mb SA 6.06 RiscPC}

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