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Re: Spammers watching this user forum
- From: David Sharp <david dot m dot sharp at btopenworld dot com>
- To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:42:41 +0100
- Subject: Re: Spammers watching this user forum
- References: <3F17DD1F.3010409@yahoo.com>
I reckon it is not Spam itself that is blocking up the net, it is all
the bouncing programs and people visiting websites to try and
unsubscribe from the lists.
If you get spam, just delete it.
Earnie Boyd wrote:
Please consider not ``bouncing'' SPAM. There have been various DoS
type virus that send email with fictitious headers. When you bounce
that type of SPAM then you are participating in the DoS. The bounce
doesn't even reach the actual sender, it reaches the fictitious
sender. Now that fictitious sender has the potential of being
infected with the DoS virus and further participating in the DoS. So
if your email server filters capture a virus, just delete it and don't
bounce it, please.
Earnie
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