Re: Bouncing Spam

Dave Forrest <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.pine.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Most spam is sent using "Forged" from addresses.  This is like putting someone 
else's return address on a very large junk snail-mail mailing so that the mailer 
can avoid all the bad address returns.  The person named as the sender had 
NOTHING to do with sending it.

The domain's mail exchanger has no real good way of determining if the sender 
was authorized by the return address to send the mail.  A couple of schemes are 
in use -- one of which is described here:

http://www.openspf.org/Introduction

Don't blame the return addressee for the spam -- most likely innocent.

-- 
David Forrest                     e-mail   [email protected]
Maple Park Development Corporation  http://www.maplepark.com
St. Louis, Missouri
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