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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

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