Another rude user using a bad return address

Jim Reid jim at rfc1035.com
Sat Apr 28 14:07:31 UTC 2001


>>>>> "Kerry" == Kerry Liles <kerryliles at home.com> writes:

    Kerry> AND a lot of spam too... Deliberately bad return addresses
    Kerry> are often used to attempt to foil email harvesting
    Kerry> mechanisms.  

These are completely pointless and futile.  Hiding email addresses
behind nospam crap in the headers does not prevent spam. The better
(worse?) harvesting tools know how to remove them. If you want to
prevent spam, configure your mail server to use the MAPS
blacklists. This will stop your mail system accepting mail from known
spam sources. It doesn't eliminate spam -- nothing can -- but the
applying the MAPS blacklist checks will dramatically reduce the amount
you get.


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