On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 08:20:23AM -0800, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > On 2/21/19, 12:38 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >You shouldn't /bounce/ spam anyway: where are you going to bounce it > >to? To a most probably spoofed address, i.e. to a totally innocent > >victim? Thus generating reflected spam, aka Joe Jobs? > > That depends. Some spammers don't see themselves as spammers, and > therefore aren't spoofing other addresses. They just either (1) fail to > honor unsubscribe requests, (2) don't put unsubscribe links in the plain > text, or (3) omit either the unsubscribe link or the plain text (or > both) entirely.
Well, if /you are sure/ they havent spoofed the From:, or Reply-To: then go ahead. But you just /can't be sure/, so don't do it. Never received bounce spam aka backscatter spam? Remember that time (perhaps 1-2 years ago) where this very list was plagued by an especially evil form of backscatter involving the useful idiot at the other end of some smartphone? Cheers [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_spam -- t
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