16 Nov
2003
16 Nov
'03
6:23 p.m.
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 03:23:56PM -0500, Anthony Ventimiglia wrote:
about writing a script to send a reply to all spammers that their mail was rejected as spam, and possibly telling them a way to resend so it
Of topic, but... don't do that!
Spammers routinely forge their addresses, usually using a live spammee's address as their own. (So it passes reachability tests, etc.)
So if you reply to spam, you're only generating *more* spam: spam that goes innocent people.
Cheers,
-- Nikodemus