Re: Egad, what a lot of spammage - Mailing list pgsql-www

From User Scrappy
Subject Re: Egad, what a lot of spammage
Date
Msg-id 20080116125522.V37991@ganymede.hub.org
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: Egad, what a lot of spammage  ("Dave Page" <dpage@postgresql.org>)
Responses Re: Egad, what a lot of spammage  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
List pgsql-www

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Dave Page wrote:

> On 16/01/2008, Tino Wildenhain <tino@wildenhain.de> wrote:
>> Personally I'd prefer them to be rejected inband so the legitimate
>> sender learns about the problem and reformulate the message accordingly.
>
> The problem with that is that for 1 legitimate message, there's a
> dozen or more from harvested addresses, the real owners of which won't
> have a clue what the bounce message is about.

Same applies to virus' ... most are forged emails, so sending an email 
back to the Sender saying 'your computer is infect' would both generate 
alot of traffic, and confuse the hell out of the person that didn't send 
the message in the first place :(



pgsql-www by date:

Previous
From: "Joshua D. Drake"
Date:
Subject: Re: [CORE] Egad, what a lot of spammage
Next
From: Alvaro Herrera
Date:
Subject: Re: Egad, what a lot of spammage