To Mac List, The reason you may or may not receive a bounced message has nothing to do with your ISP or anyone handling the message but the end recipient. In simple terms, someone like me bounced your message as the final recipient. That message goes all the way back to the sender with a "bounced" header. If you are the sender, you may think it came from your ISP or one of the other servers. Not so!
While that can account for some, it does not account for all.
I scan the list looking for the obvious spam, and tell my mail client to "bounce" all spam. That sends the message back to the sender as those who have received bounced mail well knows.
I'm sorry, I think this is a really foolish thing to do. Beyond you "bouncing" valid emails, only one in a thousand spams has a valid return address. Most use a bogus address or a mailing-list generator, but some use an unsuspecting victim. So by "bouncing" the spam in this way you are at best contributing to the spam problem (and adding yourself to the spammer's "valid address" list) and at worst spamming some poor unsuspecting person.
If you can't be bothered to use a real spam-handling service, such as SpamCop, then just delete them.
- Dan.
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