Abigail wrote: But any spammer that cares enough to read and act on the bounce messages HAS researched and noted the exact format of the Mailwasher bounce. It is their business - and what a Mailwasher bounce tells them is that the email address they used was good, because it got delivered. So for the unscrupulous spammers, a Mailwasher bounce is the same as an entry on a phony unsubscribe form -- it tells them that they got through.
Diane replies: I don't quite agree Abigail. You may be right in that the spammer knows that this is a legitimate address, but the mail isn't exactly getting through. Instead of this being a no-longer-valid email address, being bounced back by the mail server, it's a legitimate email address, but the message is deleted without ever being read. This is different from a phony unsubscribe. At least there, the email was opened. Of course, your point that most spammers don't care is well taken. I do use mailwasher. I had the free version and was not too happy with its performance. I'm now using the free trial of the pro version. If I do see a decrease in emails, I'll buy it. If not, then I don't know. I do like the idea of not downloading 200-300 emails a day, and of getting rid of most of them at the server level. But I may remove the bounce feature. Diane ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
