[ILUG] Spam and more spam

[Justin Mason]

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"John P. Looney" writes:
>On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 08:30:37AM +0100, Brian Foster mentioned:
>>  similar question:  is is possible to falsely reject the incoming
>>  (junk-)mail?  that is, the receiving MTA sends back some sort of
>>  rejection --- which presumably causes the sending MTA to never
>>  again try to deliver that particular e-mail --- whilst really
>>  saving the (suspected junk-)mail in a side mbox?
>
> What, like if someone sends spam through an Eircom MTA, Eircom's MTA
>would then think that mailbox didn't exist, and would never try send to it
>again ?

That'd be a 5xx response.  Yes, this is generally what happens -- but
spammers do not take any notice of this anymore.  Nowadays, once you're on
the list of one of the top 10 ROKSO spammers, you'll never get off.  They
don't do bounce processing.

- --j.
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