On 7 Jul 2011, at 19:08, Jeff Lasman wrote: > On Thursday, July 07, 2011 04:30:27 am Ian Eiloart wrote: > >> No, you should not bounce spam because the spammer won't know about it, but >> SMTP time rejections will be different. A bonnet host won't keep hammering >> away at a server that consistently refuses its mail. > > I'm not sure of that. We used to run an ISP. Back in the dialup days. We > still have the domain name and we keep email on it live, but with no active > email accounts. Strictly as an academic study to see if the email will ever > stop.
Of course, if you were accepting the messages, you might see more of them. > We still get tens of thousands of hits every day, almost all from spammers. > They're all refused, no local address. But they keep coming. Year to year > percent of change so far is less than 1%. > > I suppose I could create my own blocklists using the data. > > Jeff > -- > Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services > Post Office Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 > Our blists address used on lists is for list email only > Phone +1 951 643-5345, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; > > -- > ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users > ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ > ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/ -- Ian Eiloart Postmaster, University of Sussex +44 (0) 1273 87-3148 -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
