Rick Moen said:
> Quoting Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin) (breatpro at exchange.ie.ml.com):
>> > * Send a simulated MAILER-DAEMON daemon "bounce" to known spammers in
> > hopes that they will think your email address is invalid and remove
> > you from their spam lists.
>> Doesn't work. The economics of mailing spam pretty much precludes them
> from maintaining their lists of addresses: Their strategy is to send
> out incredible numbers of copies to every address they can grab,
> arranged so as to evade consequences (including bounces), and hope to
> earn a marginal living from the few "hits".
yeah, agreed. Usually the From addr is either forged or shut down by
this stage.
--j.
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