Re: [exim] Proposed change to list moderation handling

On 17/10/2006 01:45, Marc Sherman wrote:
> John Robinson wrote:
>> I may still be being very dense, of course :-)
>
> Yes, you still are. :) Sending _any_ auto-response is a bad thing,
> because the sender address of the spam (which is the vast majority of
> posts by unsubscribed addresses) is almost always forged, so that
> auto-response is backscatter.

That's unfortunate, but ought to be mostly avoidable if you've done a
spot of filtering on the original incoming message, and the
auto-response is useful, imo. If necessary the auto-response could
briefly note the possibility it's backscatter, but disabling it feels
like giving in to the spammers, something I'm sure we'd all rather
avoid. Has the problem has now reached such epic proportions that these
auto-responses are causing more harm than good?

Cheers,

John.