Re: Do you send out Bounce Notifications?

[Joel Rosenblatt <joel () COLUMBIA EDU>]

I'm all for turning them off if the email received was categorized as spam - we get 2-3 million bounce messages a day 
for an account the has never existed at
Columbia - they are all complaints about spam.  We have no way to stop them and have had to invest in extra servers 
just to handle these bounces.

My 2 cents.

Joel Rosenblatt

Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security
Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
http://www.columbia.edu/~joel


--On Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:16 PM -0600 Clyde Hoadley <hoadleyc () mscd edu> wrote:

> Every so often we get a notice from Spam Cop ref. an offending
> e-mail.  The offending e-mail always turns out to be a Bounce
> Notification.
>
> We have been operating under the assumption that
> sending Bounce Notifications was a requirement, but Spam Cop
> recommends turning them off.  I can understand that but I'm
> not 100% convinced that is the right thing to do.
> Do you think sending Bounce Notices is the right thing to do
> or is turning them off the better thing to do?
>
> How are others handling the Bounce Notifications paradox?
> Do you send them out, or file them in a 'bounced/postmaster'
> InBox, or just log them, or just turn them off?
>
> ---
> Clyde Hoadley
> Director of Information Security
> Metropolitan State College of Denver
> Campus Box 96, P.O. Box 173362, Denver Co 80217-3362
> 303-556-5074 | CELL 720-232-4737
> www.mscd.edu



Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security
Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
http://www.columbia.edu/~joel