Lyle D. Gunderson at 2002-11-11 19:15 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 16:10:40 -0500, The Count of CipherSpace 
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is alleged to have written:

<snip>

>>I should have mentioned this before.  Instead of accepting the messages, 
>>you could do one of the following:
>>
>><*@domain1.com> = spamtrap
>><*@domain1.com> = error
>><*@domain1.com> = null
>>
>>the last one will just silently discard the message.
>>
>But he would actually want to route it to error, right? So the harvester 
>would not think it a valid email address?

Since, most spam has faked/forged/non-existant return paths, and the 
spammers keep sending to invalid addresses in any case, it is a matter of 
personal choice.  I think of it as:  why waste server resources and 
outgoing bandwidth, trying to deliver to a message that either won't get 
delivered or no one will look at?

>Or would it be better to route it to spamtrap? Would this do any good, 
>since it would only work for this domain, anyway?

Most spammers these days send messages with just the one recepient, so 
spamtrap has limited value.

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