[Mimedefang] Spam to the list admin
Justin Shore
listuser at numbnuts.net
Mon Jul 7 22:01:02 EDT 2003
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, David F. Skoll wrote:
>
> > The worst offenders don't actually bounce the messages, but they have
> > filters that generate another message and send it to the list admin
> > (me).
>
> I've got a rant about bad auto responders at
>
> http://www.goldmark.org/netrants/auto-resp/
You want to talk about auto-responders do you. Well I'm sick to death of
them. One of my spamtrap domains is being joe jobbed like you wouldn't
believe. All mail without a valid recipient on that box is dropped into a
catchall account which reports the spam to Razor and Pyzor as well as
munges user/domain information and forwards on to the FTC and NANAS. I
noticed one day that my procmail script was posting bounces to NANAS. I
tried to eliminate it with the ^FROM_DAEMON regex. Unfortunately that
caught most of the spam as well as the bounces. Not good. I then tried
FROM_MAILER. Unfortunately that too did the same thing. I got to looking
at these bounces and the vast majority of them are exactly what David
describes. A brand spanking new message addressed to the From (don't get
me started on that) usually quoting some or all of the spam and a form
letter about how spam is bad. Grr... If I ever meet an auto-responder
programmer in a dark alley...
Justin
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