Hello Dwight, On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 10:17:14 -0500 GMT (13/08/02, 22:17 +0700 GMT), Dwight A Corrin wrote:
DAC> I've noticed that several include not only one of my current DAC> addresses, but an address which died about 3 years ago when DAC> ibm.net got swallowed by attglobal.net. If bounces cleaned bad DAC> addresses off lists, that address surely wouldn't still be a spam DAC> target. It works the other way round. Spammers by CD's with 1 million or 5 million or so email-addresses. As Jonathan already said, they don't care about bounces. However, the people that sell these CD's collect valid email addresses. I once heard that if you can show that an email address is valid, you can sell it. (I don't know the going rate, let's say for argument's sake, one cent for a hundred addresses). The valid addresses will be included in the next CD. It would follow that they take out bounced addresses, and I can imagine that they do that with a dedicated program, but I don't know anything about that. I sometimes get spam offering these CD's, and there is often a claim that the addresses are all fresh... -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. "I'm in favor of love as long as it doesn't happen when 'The Simpsons' are on TV." (Anita, 6) Message reply created with The Bat! 1.62/Beta1 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using an AMD Athlon K7 1.2GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
