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| Thread ID: 39587 | 2003-11-11 06:00:00 | Perfect for Spam! | ilikelinux (1418) | Press F1 |
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| 190905 | 2003-11-12 06:15:00 | > There isn't really much point in bouncing spam. Most > spam is sent from addresses that don't exist, and > when the account does exist, chances are that the > account isn't checked at all. Somehow I don't think > Joe Spammer is going to cross people off his spam > list that he has received bounces from. By bouncing > spam all you are doing is creating even more needless > traffic on the internet. Actually a lot of spam comes from "legitimate" spammers :D who get paid to spam people and use bought email lists to spam to. Many of them will remove bounced addresses as it speeds up their spamming to "non-bounced" addresses. In theory bouncing the spam would work... unfortunately there are still a lot of spammers who do just that... spam :p Mike. |
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| 190906 | 2003-11-12 06:19:00 | finnaly somewone whos on my side.... | ilikelinux (1418) | ||
| 190907 | 2003-11-12 06:33:00 | Well if I was a spammer I wouldn't bother removing addresses that don't exist. Most spammers are connected to massive pipes, so it would take them longer to remove bounced addresses than to just spam them anyway. They aren't stupid either. Who says they are using addresses that actually exist anyway? There is plenty of evidence of spammers forging mail headers to appear that they are coming from real addresses. That way, poor joe@joesisp.co.nz gets the bounces and not the spammer. |
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| 190908 | 2003-11-12 06:59:00 | i just send it back saying go away or ill sue you, with an attached virus. | agent_24 (4330) | ||
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