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http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk/
Leader of Birmingham.pm [pm.org] and a CPAN author [cpan.org]. Co-organised YAPC::Europe in 2006 and the 2009 QA Hackathon, responsible for the YAPC Conference Surveys [yapc-surveys.org] and the QA Hackathon [qa-hackathon.org] websites. Also the current caretaker for the CPAN Testers websites and data stores.
If you really want to find out more, buy me a Guinness
Links:
Memoirs of a Roadie [missbarbell.co.uk]
[pm.org]
CPAN Testers Reports [cpantesters.org]
YAPC Conference Surveys [yapc-surveys.org]
QA Hackathon [qa-hackathon.org]
MAILER-DAEMON
Once upon a time I would email the ISPs directly and explain the pointlessness of sending a bounce to spam, as virtually all spam contains a spoofed email address. This worked for a few, but seeing as I'm now getting hundreds of these I don't have the time to sit and write to ignorant ISPs [1].
So, I've written a little script using Net::POP3 to lookup the messages and spot any that might be bounces from emails. The script will then send a one off bounce to that address for each bogus mail account they reply to. The Reply-To is set to spamtrap@missbarbell.co.uk [2], so they automatically get blacklisted if they send a reply. We shall over the coming weeks whether this has any effect.
Once I've finished tweaking I may post the code somewhere for others to use or offer advice/patches for enhancements. Perhaps the scripts directory in CPAN might be an idea.
[1] Okay so they may not all be ignorant, but anyone not ignoring spam in the first place can't be all that bright.
[2] Mailing to this account would be a bad idea, but you knew that right
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
Spam bounces (Score:2)
Servers that send bounces in response to (what may be) spam are far better than servers that erroneously decide a message is spam and summarily blackhole it without a bounce or any indication to the sender (or recipient, for that matter) that something's wrong. Spam filtering is not perfect -- some systems are very far
Re:Spam bounces (Score:1)
The problem is more that most of the ISPs that are sending these bounces haven't been configured to check for spam mail. I **KNOW** spam filtering isn't perfect, I work alongside Matts [perl.org] at MessageLabs [messagelabs.com], although Matt's spam teams efforts are about as near perfect as you can get at the moment.
Maybe you are lucky enough no