Re: reject email ?
- From: "Robert" <beachcomber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 16:35:46 -0000
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"N. Miller" <anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eu3v1puxs71f$.dlg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
: On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 09:42:39 -0000, Robert wrote:
:
: > "L." <ofallon12320@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
: > news:ehk7zYWDGHA.2644@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
:
: >: Know how to block, delete, etc.etc. using Rules but is there a way to
: >: reject an e-mail address and have it go back to sender as rejected?
:
: > Yes use Mailwasher http://www.firetrust.com/
:
: NO! NO! NO! _DO NOT USE MAILWASHER TO "BOUNCE" EMAIL_. Even the author of
: that program no longer publishes it with the so-called "bounce" feature
: enabled. It _WILL_ cause you to send abusive notices to people, who _WILL_
: notify your ISP of your abuse. And it _WILL_ be abuse. Just check your
ISPs
: AUP/TOS.
:
: From the headers of your post:
:
: | NNTP-Posting-Host: host86-138-206-52.range86-138.btcentralplus.com
86.138.206.52
:
: Look here:
:
: >
http://www.bt.com/btbroadband/ns_termsnconditions_popup.jsp?obsNoSee=Y&vStore=1322&obsPage=/btbroadband/ns_main_popup.jsp&obsType=LINK&obsOID=95143&contentKey=NS-TEXT_BTBB_TERMS_CONDITIONS2
:
: From which I find:
:
: | Using the service
: |
: | 20. You agree to take all reasonable steps to make sure that nobody
(including you) uses the service:
: |
: | c) to annoy anyone or cause any inconvenience...
:
: Do you not think that sending phony bounces to the forged email address of
: the putative "sender" of spam will _not_ annoy those people?
:
: Or look here:
:
: http://www.abuse-guidance.com/
:
: From which I find:
:
: | Abusive emails
: |
: | It is not always obvious whether an activity is innocent, inadvertent,
: | or intentional but as a general rule, email users should be aware that
: | what is unacceptable (and possibly illegal) offline (oral or written),
: | applies equally online. As with telephone calls, you must not send any
: | emails which cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety. You
: | should not send false messages likely to cause distress (e.g. advising
: | the recipient that a relative has been in an accident when they have
: | not), or any other material which is distressing, grossly offensive,
: | indecent, obscene, menacing or in any other way unlawful. Particular
: | care should be taken to avoid any material which is offensive to people
: | on grounds of gender, race, colour, religion or other similar
: | categorisation.
:
: Do you not think that people, who receive "bounces" to their "@yahoo.com",
: or the like, email accounts suffer "needless anxiety"? Or have you not
read
: such persons posting to these very groups about why they are getting
: "bounces" telling them that a message, which they did not send, could not
: be delivered?
:
: Also, from the same site:
:
: | Forging Addresses
: |
: | You must not send data via the internet which has forged addresses or
: | which is deliberately constructed to adversely affect remote machines.
:
: Do you not know that a MailWasher phony bounce forges your ISP's domain
: mailer-daemon as the "sender" of the phony bounce? Of course, with BT
: Internet, I suppose that you could have an actual domain mailer-daemon;
but
: that does not mitigate against the previous items which I have enumerated.
:
: Despite the MailWasher author's claim to the contrary, I _can_ identify a
: MailWasher phony bounce; and I do report them as abuse to the sender's ISP
: abuse department. I am not the only one.
:
: --
: Norman
: ~Oh Lord, why have you come
: ~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum
.
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