> That being said, I think that many spam battling methods seem > to be passive....
There is enough "activity" by spammers :-) Keep in mind that spammers doesn't wait for negative responses like "please remove..." or a non delivery report. In most cases any type of response is what spammers wait for. It's a sign that there is someone reading his messages. So the best action would be to remain passive, and let disappear all spam in a black hole. The lower the reaction to millions of send messages the uneconomical will be the "low cost of email-advertisement" You should also know that in some cases (HTML-formated spam with external images) the spammer can see in the webserver logfile how much people has seen his message even if there is no reply to the senders adress. The worst case is an external image like http://advertised-domain.com/image.g_i_f?recipient_id=12345 In this case the spammer can track every single recipient as soon as the message was visualized on the client side. Markus --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
