Re: OOO To Internet

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On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:43:21 -0700, AndyJ <andyjones99@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On 10 Aug, 20:51, Andy David {MVP}
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On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:43:42 -0700, "Susan"
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only reason I don't like it is that as long as it's on, it's responding to
every sender, including spammers, validating smtp address...

How many Spammers send from their real address?
I dont worry about things like that, spammers dont need OOFs to build
their databases :)

True in most cases but I still don't like seeing tons of NDRs when my SMTP
attempt to notify spammers that someone is OoO.

Dont see too many of those. My anti-spam software nails most of that
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I'll take that as a no then. Turning on OOO to the internet in my
experience does increase levels of SPAM, I have seen it many times.
The customer I am dealing with now used to have a mechanism in place
which replied with a nospam address, the users real name was contained
within the message body.I can totally understand from a business
perspective why this functionality is required and hence the question.
I think this one is always a tough call and 9 times out of 10 the
technical folk dont make it as it's a business decision. On another
note I cannot understand why MS dont inlude functionality like this
out of the box, surely with Exchange 2007 this would be simple edge or
hub transport agent functionality, but I dont see anything dramatic
has been done in this area....:(





Actually, Exchange 2007 does have improvements in this area. Users
will be able to generate OOFS to their contacts only. Pretty cool
actually.

I have never seen evidence that allowing OOFS increases SPAM. Since
all those emails are spoofed, it does not necessarily follow that it
would.
It could be as easily argued that NDRs and recipient filtering and
such increase SPAM as well.
I dont think today's sophisticated spammers rely on those things
primarily to build their databases.
.

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