[SpamCop-List] Re: mail reporting address

[Mike Easter]

Steven Maesslein wrote:
> Mike Easter

>> Do *not* believe anything MW tells you about bogus bouncing.  It is
>> almost universally harmful and abusive and...
>
> ...can lead to you losing your account with your ISP because it forges
> bounce messages from postmaster at your_isp.tld.
>
> ISPs don't usually like their subscribers trying to pass themselves
> off as the postmaster, nor do they appreciate the backscatter which
> lands in their postmaster mailbox which, if it complies with the
> RFCs, is unfiltered.

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http://computercops.biz/postlite43343-bouncing.html

stan_qaz  "My ISPs weren't amused either and told me I'd get turned off
if I didn't quit."
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I'm still drilling around in those forums;  I'm glad I found that cite,
once I was having an argument in alt.spam where someone doubted the
/real/ danger of a provider squashing someone's account for fraudulent
bogus bouncing.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin