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[SpamCop-List] Re: Out of office messages

André Hendriks andre at hendriks.invalid
Fri Aug 6 16:57:38 EDT 2004


"Kenneth Loafman" <loafman at spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:5917h0hsf59chk7vbet6o3vhsr9t0m2ofh at 4ax.com...

<SNIP>

>
> Any automated response is a bad thing because spammers will eventually
> send spam with a From that contains a spamtrap for one of the RBL's.  When
> your email client replies, the reply will go to the From address and the
> spamtrap will trigger, possibly cause a short term block on you IP.
>
> ...Ken

Yes, that what I read everywhere. But if I take it to it's limits I should
only reply after checking if the From address really is the sender of the
message. Which may be difficult.

André




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