[Scspamcop] Re: Recipient claims that this is not reportable

[Will Wilkinson]

In message <etrjgs$ca1$1 at news.spamcop.net>, Farelf <user at domain.invalid> 
writes
>Mike Easter wrote:
>> Will Wilkinson wrote:
>>
>>>I've had a response from computersupport at wmi.usyd.edu.au that claims
>>>that the following item is not reportable.
>>   They are wrong and they are doing a bad job of admin/ing a server. 
>>If
>> their network is going to spend thousands and thousands of $$ on an
>> expensive piece of hardware, maybe they should find someone who knows
>> how to do mail admin.
><snip>
>> The output server 129.78.160.66 rDNS smtp.wmi.usyd.edu.au  of the
>> University of Sydney is not currently blocklisted anywere;  but such a
>> server admin ought to know better.
>>
>
>And what is more they are at variance with their own policy - see 
>http://www.usyd.edu.au/ict/BPO/EmailVirusScanningApril04.pdf and 
>particularly "Email Virus Scanning Policy ...
>5 Procedures ...
>(4) Because sender addresses can be forged by an email virus, the 
>scanning process will never send anything back to a sender, unless the 
>sender can be conclusively identified."
>
>Bloody boofheads

I got a positive result - corresponded with their admin and they've now 
disabled the auto-responder. Nice to get a decent result for once.

Will
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