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Re: incorrect spam setups cause spool messes on forwarders

  • From: John Brown (CV)
  • Date: Tue Dec 02 05:39:37 2003 
telling spammers 4xx or 5xx doesn't matter, they don't listen.

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 09:18:21PM +0100, Daniel Roesen wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 12:52:28PM -0700, Michael Lewinski wrote:
> > The idea is to "punish" spammers by filling up their queues, although 
> > honestly I don't know of any spammers who actually *have* queues. They 
> > just borrow other people's of course.
> 
> Correct. More and more, anti-spammers are annoying me more than
> the spammers. Anti-spammers tend to "make my problem YOUR problem"
> thinking. Be it mangled sender addresses (this "NOSPAM" nonsense),
> be it 450 to suspected spam.
> 
> Antispanners seem to be very easy in accepting collateral damage
> to the net.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel