Topic: Anti-Spam Mechanism

[Wei]

I don't know if this exists, yet... but we'd sure use it if it did:

An address to which spam could be forwarded...
when it arrives, some [qmail?] bot would create
a realistic "bounce" message from it and send
this creation to the spammer who sent the orig-
inal spam mesage...

(Ideally, qmail could record a date-time stamp
& the address of the spammer for later anal-
ysis, and maybe notify heavy spammers'
ISPs when a certain threshhold is exceeded.)

Of course, it would be nice if every e-mail client
had a "SpamBounce" button, so that all of this
could happen on the client-side, but this does
not seem as easy, i.e. with mail clients such as
Outloot Express being proprietary.

Perhaps there are programs that already to this?

Do any of them fit into the context of e-smith?

TIA

[Charlie Brady]

Wei wrote:

> An address to which spam could be forwarded...
> when it arrives, some [qmail?] bot would create
> a realistic "bounce" message from it and send
> this creation to the spammer who sent the orig-
> inal spam mesage...

That's a good idea, but it's actually impossible to do. The sending of SPAM is essentially anonymous. Finding out where and when the spam was injected is the first challenge, and then the really difficult phase begins - identifying and contacting the offending party.

Sending bounce messages is just a waste of time - it won't get to the spammer, and the spammer won't read it anyway.

Regards

Charlie