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Re: Denial of Service by Spamware?

2000-12-28 13:10:02

Randy Bush <randy(_at_)psg(_dot_)com> writes:
actually, if it is a delivery failure notification, 1123 5.3.3 would seem
to apply.  mail bounces are to be sent to the MAIL FROM: not the original
sender.  or even if they were sent to the from: we would not see them.

this <bleep> has been designed to be max annoying.  get the word out.  tell
folk NOT TO BUY ANTIGEN.

It is even worse than that.

Anyone who has posted to the IETF list in the last week or two has
gotten literally dozens of "out of office notification" messages from
Microsoft Exchange clients. You would think the largest application
software provider in the world would understand the difference between
envelope and message headers, but apparently not. (You would also
think that, as with many Unix based mailers, they'd understand notions
like not sending automated replies if the person isn't in the header
To: or CC: lines, but apparently that behavior is also too complicated
for them to understand.)

This problem has been around for years now, and there is no sign of
enough clue showing up to fix it.

.pm