Re: Returned mail spam

[Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org>]

Matus UHLAR - fantomas writes:
> > Richard Smits wrote:
> > >Hos safe is it to pump up the score for the ANY_BOUNCE_MESSAGE ?
> > >Is it bug free, so I can give it 5 or 10 points ?
> 
> On 18.04.08 09:19, Jason Haar wrote:
> > So you are wanting to mark ANY bounce, out of office, or mailing-list 
> > related email into your organization as spam? If you want to do that, 
> > then sure! :-)
> > 
> > My own investigations would show that would not be a good idea. I think 
> > you meant "BOUNCE_MESSAGE" instead - but even that is catching stuff 
> > that isn't backscatter.
> 
> yes, since (according to previous discussion) VBounce was not designed to
> mark backscatter as spam, but to mark (suspicious) bounces as bounces.
> It probably needs many changed to be reliable in the way most users expect
> - to catch baskscatter while not catch other

this may be a matter of definition.  In my opinion, "out of office"
messages, C/R requests, etc. sent in response to spam forging your
address as the sender -- I would define those as backscatter.

As the packager of that ruleset -- yes, it is designed to catch
backscatter.

--j.