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[Michael Foord]

Cliff Wells <clifford.wells at comcast.net> wrote in message news:<mailman.5648.1099041856.5135.python-list at python.org>...
> On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 04:56 +0000, Andrew Dalke wrote:
> > Terry Reedy wrote:
> > > I am surprised.  Maybe some mail systems have given up on bounces, perhaps 
> > > since they validate the good addresses by not bouncing.
> > 
> > My machine is one.  Before I turned on filtering I was getting ...
> > 12,000 spams a day sent to made up addresses @ my domain.  (They were
> > all forwarded to me).  I decided to /dev/null them instead of bouncing
> > in part to prevent the validation and in part because the 'from'
> > addresses were often forged, so my bounce mail would either end up in
> > some Random J. Blow's box or in turn get bounced back to me.
> 
> I wish more admins would do this.  Bouncing messages to invalid accounts
> is worse than worthless these days.

I'm taking this even more OT... my biggest source of junk mail is
virus warnings sent automatically as responses to virus emails with
forged from addresses. Its *really* annoying.....

Fuzzy