[SATLUG] spam-fighting techniques

[K. Spoon]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 08:25:43PM -0500, Mark McCoy wrote:
> Should you bounce spam?  I'm of the mind that a great deal of spam
> these days comes from zombied PC's, not real SMTP servers, and
> bouncing an invalid email to a nonexistant (or worse, and existing)
> account on a valid domain only increases the amount of crap floating
> around.  Better to silently drop it into /dev/null than add to the
> problem...

As an admin who's currently getting flooded with mailer-daemon notices
of undeliverable mail thanks to a spammer using one of my domains in 
his forged from line....

Thank you.  :)

-- 
Kelley Spoon <kell at spoonix.com>