[65125] in Cypherpunks
Re: Court challenge to AOL junk-mail blocks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Trei)
Tue Sep 10 10:10:17 1996
From: "Peter Trei" <trei@process.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 09:50:21 -6
Reply-To: trei@process.com
Cc: trei@toad.com
[you can't bounce spam back to it's source]
> Why not? Because spammers _invariably_ forge the return addresses to keep
> exactly that from happening.
What I do is look into the headers, and start bouncing it back to the domain
administrator, if I can't find any better mail address.
Pegasus makes it easy to automate this.
I *do* send one politely worded request first - it takes a second spamming before
I'll set up the rule.
Peter Trei
trei@process.com