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While they're at it.... 

Posted Tuesday 18th September 2007 11:58 GMT

Maybe Barracuda Networks would like to inject a little bit of intelligence into their anti-spam product...

For example, putting a bounce notification limit count on the system so an email address which has been used as a fake "reply-to" as mine did the other week, doesn't get burried in thousands of "Your message was rejected by the Barracuda spam filter blah blah blah".

They caused me more of a headache than real spam has managed for many months.

Re: While they're at it... 

Posted Tuesday 18th September 2007 16:52 GMT

Same problem here.

It only takes a moment's thought to realise just how cretinous it is to bounce spam back to the purported sender. Everyone knows that spammers lie. Could it be that they just lack confidence in the product's ability not to generate false positives? I would certainly never buy it.

-A.

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