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Posted by Danny on 11/14/06 10:00
"Andrew" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:12lj1hu4fhbtsee@corp.supernews.com...
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> If your boincing back using your own email address probably not a good
> idea.
> You can change this to bounce back with a different email address
>
> I strongly recommend you dont bounce at all ( i delete) because the email
> address they come from
> are all bogus and usually they use someone elses genuine email address,
> who then receives the bounces. Ive experienced this
>
> To contact the spammers you have to click the link in their emails rather
> than reply to their emails directly
Exactly. Spammers almost never use their own return email address when
sending out their crap so any emails you bounce back will never get anywhere
near them! Instead, they often use other people's email so you end up
getting some poor sod who receives literally hundreds of 'Mail Delivery
Error' reports! Trust me, I know - I been that poor sod on more than one
occasion and believe me, I'd love to wring the neck of the tosser who's
doing it...
So bottom line is contrary to popular belief, switch off the 'bounce back'
option - your average spammer tends to 'fire and forget' when they send out
their emails so any clever tricks your spam software is using to supposedly
fool them into thinking your address isn't real won't work. All you'll do is
piss off some other computer user that doesn't deserve to get crap like that
either...
The dramatic increase in spam is a real shame and it is honestly making
email a considerably less effective communications medium than it used to
be. The problem is that as anti-spam software becomes more robust, more and
more 'genuine' emails are going to get lost in the system...
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