Spam and bounces - how do you handle it?

[Mark E. Mallett]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:36:21AM -0500, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:
> Often, we get spam to list publishing 
> addresses, but on closed lists, these will be bounced with messages like 
> "only subscribers may post."

FWIW, for this case, I'm in favor of forwarding those sorts of messages
to a list owner/moderator to deal with.  That moderator can judge whether
to let messages pass, or to contact the sender, etc.  This puts the
burden of misfires on somebody responsible for the list rather than on
third parties.

Backscatter/outscatter is a tough problem because of all the edge cases.
Some people live in an all-or-nothing universe, though, especially when
it comes to having opinions about spam.

mm