On 12/14/02 7:48 PM, Tracy Lee enlightened us by writing:
>In my opinion, that is not a wise thing as you are just confirming that
>the email address is valid and it will get a response, albeit an
>automated reply. Since many of their tools are automated, you are just
>creating more of a loop of unwanted mail. You should be able to create a
>script that would just send the message out to what you have determined
>as genuine people, but I will leave that up to someone else to tackle as
>I can't get my head around that at the moment.
Rather than that (as one of Dan Crevier's scripts, IIRC, did), have your
spam filter check if the sender of the HTML file is in your address book,
and if not, then send a reply advising them (if you want to do it that
way). As Bill McIntyre points out in his response, by sending e-mail to
the spammers, you validate that yours is an active e-mail account (so
they send more). Better to not reply, and just trash it (or send to your
"iffy" folder). As I understand it, one way spammers learn who to keep
sending to, is they check who has responded/replied to their junk.
HTH,
Jim Rohde
(Could change this sig to spammers rather than politicians...)
"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel" Samuel Johnson
"With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer,
I beg to submit that it is the first." - Ambrose Bierce's commentary
on Johnson's definition.
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