Re: Are you seeing these mailer bounces?

On 01/04, Jem wrote:
> These are annoying me so much. The problem of "backscatter" as it's called 
> has been around for years, but it really seems to be picking up in volume. 

I did in the past, I don't currently.  I've been consistently telling
spamprobe that stuff is spam as long as I've been using it.  But using SPF
might be more relevant:  http://www.openspf.org/

$ host -t txt chaosreigns.com
chaosreigns.com text "v=spf1 a a:sfo.clueful.net ~all"

That's all I did, but my mail setup is relatively simple.  The "Deploying
SPF" wizard at the top right of the page I linked to is useful.  

It is a way of saying "these are all of the hosts that ever legitimately
send email from this domain".  And I believe enough people are filtering on
it (and not bouncing the results) that it could easily account for my lack
of backscatter in my inbox.

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