----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Perkel" <marc@???>
To: "Jeroen van Aart" <kroshka@???>
Cc: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [exim] Out of Office and collateral spam
> I have a little different take on the out of office backscatter. Even
> though it is somewhat annoying I actually count ham points for it when
> it comes to my blacklisting because spammers don't host auto responders.
> My take is that ham from people who have morons for email admins is
> still ham. But to clarify, I do try to block spam generated OoO
> backscatter, but I try to make sure that it doesn't count against the
> host's IP karma score. The same is true of sender address verification.
> Spammers aren't verifying addresses on incoming email.
What about spam pretending to be OOO ? e.g. "Sorry I am OOO - but you can
always order online", and how would you distinguish between the 2 ?
All the best
Phil
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