On 24 Aug 2005 at 23:29, Alan J. Flavell wrote about
"Re: [exim] Anti Phishing Trick":
| On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Fred Viles wrote:
|
| > On 24 Aug 2005 at 20:19, Alan J. Flavell wrote about
| > "Re: [exim] Anti Phishing Trick":
|
| | On the one hand, they forward spam to us which our anti-spam measures
| | reject out of hand (causing them no doubt to send bounces to innocent
| | third parties whose addresses have been counterfeited as senders of
| | the spam).
|
| > Indeed. Wow. I thought you were one of the Good Guys.
|
| I understand what you're saying, but I would suggest that any such
| bounces (collateral spam) are being generated on *their*
| responsibility, not ours.
I understand what you're saying, and I've made that argument myself
against those who say one should never reject at SMTP time because
the offering MTA may be a relay. But the case of forwarded accounts
seems different to me. Whatever a site's spam filtering prowess, as
a willing user of the system you are responsible for what happens to
whatever email gets accepted on your behalf. The fact that you (the
user) are choosing to auto-forward to another site doesn't change
that.
Shades of grey...
- Fred
