On Wednesday, December 4, 2002, 10:07:00 AM, Peter Palmreuther wrote: > I'm sorry for being forced to disillusionate you, but this "faking > bounces" ain't "fighting spam" even in the slightest way. It has > nothing in common with any successful "spam fighting technology", the > effect of bounces and faked bounces on amount of spam is near to zero, > not measurable.
I wondered about this too. Does the production of spoofed bounce messages reduce the levels of spam any more that just deleting it? I guess that the senders of spam get *lots* of bounce messages, so I am not sure they are going to bother to remove the email addresses that generate bounces. The email addresses that they are most interested in are those that are verified by a response from the owner, because they can be sold as "live", and I doubt they could care less about anything else. Julian -- Using The Bat! v1.61 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
