>>However, I'd say that 70% of spammers don't even care. Most of them >>bought a CD with your and about 1 000 000 other addresses on it and will >>use that on and on again. You really think these people even care if your >>mail bounces back at the poor postmaster that had his/hers SMTP attacked >>by the m?
>I think is does work to some extent. I was receiving spam at one email >address. I started bouncing it back and it stopped at that address but >started at another of my email addresses. It was strange that they had >both but it did seem to stop. Maybe the poor postmaster that is allowing >this will take action if they keep getting the bounce backs. I've read extensive discussions of this subject on other lists, and it seems that the prevailing wisdom is that 99% of spammers don't care about bounced emails and simply ignore them. With spam lists of a million or more addresses, every spam certainly yields thousands of actual bounces. Why would a spammer bother to take the time (and its expense) to correct a mailing list. Is it not much more expensive to make the changes than to simply send their spam freely without regard for the actual number of true recipients? I formerly used Mail Siphon to identify spam while still on the mail server, and bounce it via Mail Siphon. Having been convinced that it is a waste of my time, adding insult to my injury by having to deal with spam in the first place, I now simply delete it and move on. ---Jay
