[CentOS] OT Mailing List Spam

Mark A. Lewis mark at siliconjunkie.net
Fri Oct 3 16:38:31 UTC 2008


>Just the idea of a autoresponder for abuse mail account is dang scary. Would
>make a spammers job easy.
>I do not use autoresponders ever for any accounts. I have the server eat all
>mail that comes in and not bounce them off, Again, a good thing for a
>spammer to find.

And what are they going to do, spam people with Yahoo's auto reply? It's not like it's an open relay. Possible it could be used for a DOS attack, but not for spamming.




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