At 19:40 2002-12-08 -0800, Carl B. Constantine wrote:
I want to create a recipie that bounces to the *proper* source email
address. Mainly for spammers so that I can be removed from their lists
and receive no spam any more.
It doesn't work that way. Few spammers operate legitimate email lists
which actually process bounces - some collect (or make up) as many
addresses as they can so they can sell "23 billion addresses for $199" and
others simply use the addresses they bought or harvested through
spambots. As if they care about cleaning up their lists.
Slashdot pointed to an excellent article recently about the king of spam
being spammed and he didn't like it, he was being "harrassed" (his
words). It's about bloody time he got a taste of his own medicine!
He was harassed outside of email. Bouncing your spam isn't going to have
quite the same effect, esp. seeing as the majority of spam is sent from
forged email addresses in the first place, so there's a good chance that
any bounce you actually send will itself bounce, and if not, will probably
be harassing some poor schmoe whose email address was abused by the spammer.
---
Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
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