From: Karel Jansens (kareljansens_at_tiscalinet.be)
Date: Thu Sep 11 2003 - 05:00:56 PDT
On Thursday 11 September 2003 13:13, Joost van de Griek wrote:
> On 2003-09-11 10:26, Karel Jansens wrote:
> > On Wednesday 10 September 2003 22:33, John M Powell wrote:
> >> I suspect it's something other than from this list. I've been on for
> >> a long time, and get very very (very) little spam. My email address
> >> is sometimes even posted in the email body, which would make it
> >> easier to harvest. I did see a slight increase shortly after the
> >> Blaster made it's rounds. My guess is it's been harvested from some
> >> other location. Whatever you do, don't ask them to take you off their
> >> list. That's guaranteed to have the exact opposite response.
> >
> > If your e-mail client has the option of faking a bounced message
> > (Kmail does, but you'd need Linux for that), I can confirm that a
> > judicious use of that feature for a couple of weeks will reduce spam
> > to almost zero.
>
> Please, please, please, DO NOT BOUNCE SPAM.
>
> You will find out why when someone has used your email address in the
> reply-to header, and you receive thousands of bounces in a single day
> (or hour). Not funny.
Hasn't happened to me yet.
<cynism>
The more people get annoyed with spam, the sooner something real will be
done about it. I propose hanging, drawing and quartering the bastards.
</cynism>
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