Subject: No Spam From Me, My address Was Faked. From: Spam_Bouncer@ Sender: Spam_Bouncer@ I append http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/std/no_spam_from_me.txt Fix your mailer ! Do Not bounce spam with faked addresses at innocents ! No Viruses From Here We don't run Microsoft junk. We only run self compiled public source. See http://www.berklix.com/free/ Claims Of Corporate Policy Are NO excuse ! - We do not tolerate as excuse: - Stupid laws or lawyers who say all mail must be returned. - Irresponsible bosses who say: "Toss all spam back at apparent senders." & think "Then we'll not lose occasional real mail, our admin cost, & to hell with all faked innocents we burden". - We may report you as secondary spammers & get you black holed. - Hostile counter measures may be used if you dump on us. If You Dump Masqueraded Spam To A majordomo@: That Is Stupid ! majordomo@ is one of the best known mail list robots, its address often faked as sender by spammers. Your robot complaining to a majordomo@ robot would shows stupidity or incompetence. Another robot is listproc Our domains have no spammers: We can & would instantly terminate, unlike others who must check & warn. Spammers hide their identity. Our admins do not hide: http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/contact/ http://www.bsdpie.com We are Unix Consultants, You could pay us to fix Your broken system. Why Spammers Masquerade, Particularly As This Author: - My & other addresses were stored on the net, long before spammers trawling for addresses to spam to, & fake masquerade from. - I run many mail lists, & am an organiser of several clubs, numerous members of which are, like most people, only half competent, catch viruses elsewhere, which harvest my & other innocent addresses from their mail archives, & export to spammer lists. (Not via my servers!). ------------ JJLATER Below to merge later ------------ Do Not Tell Me I Sent You A Spam Or Virus - You Are Wrong ! Spammers & Virus spreaders frequently masquerade as others. I & my computers send no spam or viruses, nor are they infested, but that doesn't stop scum masquerading as me, (or you too, sooner or later). Some swine spammed a load of people in my name in June 2004 with sociological views that were Not mine. There's nothing to stop someone spamming in your name too. Realise fake masquerading happens. Learn to detect it, & to examine headers carefully before reporting it. Complaints from automatic responders eg: "you sent a virus or spam", gets deleted unseen by my filter, they're Always wrong in my case, & a complete waste of my time. Some spammers doubtless broadcast "You sent a spam/ virus" just to harvest addresses of live responders. I don't have time or interest to waste with spammers, viruses, & virally infested Microsoft users, relayers, & incompetents, so my mail filter just discards all such rubbish. If you use virally endangered software & proprietary unpublished formats etc from convicted & fined monopolist Microsoft, http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:62004A0201:EN:HTML I will not waste my time dealing with your self imposed viral liability problems. It's incompetent users with infested insecure inferior binary only commercial software, surepticiously taken over by spammers & used as spam relays, that are helping choke the Internet with spam. Some incompetent net users are so arrogantly stupid as to sometimes persist in pushing views such as "A tax per email sent would discourage spam" - That & other ideas just announces how ignorant such net users are. They themselves are the reason the Internet is so abused. Laws don't protect much, (especially in a trans national Internet). Security protects. & they themselves, the incompetent users, are the insecure base the spammers often exploit to infest & burden the net. http://www.berklix.com Computer Consultancy http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/cv/ My Resume - English & German http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/contact/ Contact - German for business also OK. http://www.berklix.com/free/ Free Software http://www.berklix.org Free Organisations & Clubs