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Deputies: "This message looks like a bounce, will not report."
Hans Salvisberg
salvisberg at spamcop.net
Wed Jan 5 11:46:29 EST 2005
I keep getting misdirected bounces (virus and spam reports) in response
to forged sender addresses. According to
http://www.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/14.html
we are now allowed to send spam reports for these:
vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
Messages which may be reported:
There are several types of responses to forged email that SpamCop has in
the past prohibited. However, these messages have become a big enough
problem that we now allow them to be reported as the spam that they
technically are.
Examples of messages in this category:
Misdirected bounces
Misdirected virus notifications
Misdirected vacation emails
Misdirected challenges from challenge/response spam filtering systems"
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I tried to do just that
http://mailsc.spamcop.net/sc?id=z709571796zecbd3136b27ecf44e967e58f3056cc97z
but SC says:
This message looks like a bounce, will not report.
Do not report bounces as spam!
Message is old [<----- not true, but that's another issue]
Nothing to do.
Deputies: I'm sure you don't want us to massage the headers to get
around SC's bounce detection, so please update SC to allow submitting
the bounces.
Thanks!
Hans
P.S. This bouncer even says that it detected the Sober.I worm, which is
known for spoofing the sender address, but it still sends the bounce to
the spoofed address!
P.P.S. My domain has an SPF record, which has helped tremendously in
discouraging Spammers from abusing it, but the "AntiVirus Checkers"
apparently don't care...
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