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[SpamCop-List] 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"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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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