Seriously Hacked Off

Some tosspot has decided to send out a ton of spam emails advertising Viagra to the world, faking my domain as the return address.

This means my mailserver is currently having to fend off masses of bounce messages from other mailservers around the world that have rejected mail due to invalid email addresses, or messages telling me my email has been rejected by their spam filter because I've sent unsolicited commercial email.

I haven't!

Why can't sysadmins learn to disable bounce back messages for UCE? It should be perfectly obvious by now that the return addresses in UCE messages are never valid, and all that happens is some poor sod (me at the moment) gets flooded with erroneous messages.

Luckily, I control my own mail system at home using a combination of fetchmail, qmail, qmail-scanner, courier-imap, spamassassin and maildrop. So, for the time being all these bounce back messages are being directed to /dev/null - but I pity the poor computer illiterate sods who get hit with this crap and don't know what the hell to do about it.

But more to the point, why on earth should I have to jump through hoops just simply because some arsehole on another continent wants to flog some blue pills to idiots I've never met?