Re: spam return address backlash

[Ken Connelly <Ken.Connelly () UNI EDU>]

We see this occasionally, but not often.  And no uptick here in recent
days/weeks.

-ken

Roger Safian wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> In the last couple weeks we have seen several of our
> addresses used as the from address in spam.  This
> causes few serious problems, but does generate an
> increase in the number of spam complaints to our
> abuse aliases.
>
> It does cause a serious issue if the chosen address
> used by the spammer, also happens to be a real
> address in use here at Northwestern.  We have
> heard of people receiving hundreds of bounced messages
> per day if this happens.  We recommend filters,
> but there's little else we can do to stop this.
>
> My questions are two.  Is this happening elsewhere,
> and if so, have you recently noticed an increase
> in this activity?

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- Ken
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Ken Connelly             Associate Director, Security and Systems
ITS Network Services                  University of Northern Iowa
email: Ken.Connelly () uni edu   p: (319) 273-5850 f: (319) 273-7373