[Gllug] RE: Gllug Digest, Vol 19, Issue 75

[Chris Bell]

On Mon 31 Jan, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> 
> David Abbishaw wrote:
> 
> >I have been bouncing it back as unknown, 
> >
> 
> Bouncing spam is pretty silly given that the email address it's coming 
> from is, most likely, either a) fake or b) not the person who sent you 
> the mail.
> 
> Rejecting is fine, but bouncing is pointless and just wastes your bandwidth.
> 
> 
   Demon always verify the sender's IP address, so any junk that arrives
here is not bounced back to the sender but returned to their ISP. I also CC
to the original poster's ISP if I am fairly convinced that it is a bounce of
a message with forged sender details or has arrived via an open relay.


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Chris Bell

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