Spam and bounces - how do you handle it?

[Bill McGonigle]

On Feb 9, 2007, at 12:08, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:

>  But as I said, a lot of our backscatter is bounce
> traffic originating from legitimate addresses.  The bounce error is  
> important
> as it will tell a real person why their message cannot be posted or  
> their
> request cannot be handled for one reason or another and it's used  
> in this
> capacity very often.  But every time one of those addresses is hit  
> by a
> falsified sender, the bounce message goes to that falsified sender.

What if you only sent bounces to addresses where the incoming mail  
originated from a server with an SPF pass for the From: address?

I'm not suggesting a particular software solution, just an idea for  
criticism.

-Bill

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