At 6:43 AM -0500 12/21/01, Sean wrote: >It depends on whether the spammer is removing people who bounced as dead >addresses.
The 99.9% are spammers--if they had a valid return address they'd a) receive so many bounces that they wouldn't be able to deal with and b) be shut down by their ISP so fast they wouldn't know what hit them. The .1% is split between companies that actually got (or thought they got) your address legitimately, and *really* dumb spammers. My experience is that even the legitimate mailing lists (outside of technical ones like this) aren't very responsive about processing bounces. The only reason I argue against the "fake bounce" feature is that I see it just creating more bounced email traffic on the network. What's the return address on Mail.app's fake bounce? Where does the bounce bounce to? -- Kee Hinckley - Somewhere.Com, LLC http://consulting.somewhere.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or ...!alice!nazgul for time travelers :-) I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.
