[Spambayes] RE: Is this a sign of future problems ?

[Robert K. Coe]

> From: Tim Peters [mailto:tim.one at comcast.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 5:30 PM
> To: Russ Foster
> Cc: spambayes at python.org
> Subject: RE: [Spambayes] Is this a sign of future problems ?
> 
> 
> [Russ Foster]
> > How does it validate an email address if it doesn't contain any HTML?
> 
> The spammer can simply record whether the email is rejected at SMTP time,
> with a "no such user" kind of response.  Keeping "rejected because it looks
> like spam" rejections out of the mix is helpful for that purpose.

You bring up a good point. My home domain has a catchy name, so spammers frequently use it in forged headers. So I get a lot of bounce messages from recipient sites that don't recognize the forgery. I've noticed that some large ISP's (AOL, for one) seem to enjoy taunting the spammer with the exact reason they didn't deliver his message. Aside from the fact that it's usually not the spammer who sees the bounce messages, maybe that's not a very good idea.

Bob