Hi Jurgen and list, On Sunday, February 2, 2003 at 19:02:17 GMT +0100 (which was 19:02 where I live) Jurgen Haug wrote (at least in parts) and made these valuable points on the subject of "good anti-spam prog for use with TB!":
> I was always wondering if The Bat has the option to bounce back mails, > pretending the email doesn't exist? to get off the lists? at first: No! real bouncing can only come from a MTA (mail transfer agent), not a MUA (mail user agent), so inspecting the headers of a faked bounce would reveal your mail account active - and make your address even more valuable. second: do you believe some spammer would care about a bounced mail? If they _really_ would reach his mailbox, which I don't believe as sender or reply-to are usually faked. A friend of mine once got about 28.000 bounce-messages in 1 week to his mailbox (needless to mention _he_ didn't spam). 3rd: never, never ever reply to a spam mail, even not use a remove-link or -address. Those mails or webpage-visits are usually careful watched and your email-address can be marked as "alive" and "being read" making it even more valuable. Instead report them through spamcop (http://www.spamcop.net) which leads to complaints at ISP, Netblock-Owners and so on. -- Regards Michael powered by The BAT! 1.63 Beta/5 with usual problems of Windows XP Pro 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
