On Thursday, Mar 20, 2003, at 23:32 US/Eastern, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
The 1,000,000 email addresses that we provide each week are
general,
non-targeted addresses, and are about 90% USA-based. These are not
opt-in addresses, but we have removed many of the flamers and
trouble-makers from the lists. We run them all through our
commercial
grade verification programs to ensure deliverability.
Lovely. Let's become "trouble-makers".
For a while, I would complain about every single spam. I'd track down
the owner of the web site being advertised, and complain to their ISP.
It worked quite well--at a time when other people I knew with
well-known public e-mail addresses were getting 20-30 spams a day, I
was getting 2-3.
I noticed that the spam I got was the real dregs, from folk with room
temperature IQ. They'd send HTML as the body of a text/plain e-mail
message, filled with spelling mistakes, advertising chest enlargement
creams and other products only a really gullible moron would buy. So it
seemed that by complaining, I filtered out the even-remotely-smart
spammers.
However, over the last year or so, complaining simply stopped working
as a strategy. There are too many spammers now who don't care how much
trouble they cause, and too many morons. So now I get 60-80 pieces of
spam a day, almost all so inept that SpamAssassin has no trouble
filtering them out. I've yet to get a single false-positive, in fact.
mathew
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