[ILUG] anti-spam thing...

[Justin Mason]

Rick Moen said:
> Quoting Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin) (breatpro at exchange.ie.ml.com):
> 
> > * Send a simulated MAILER-DAEMON daemon "bounce" to known spammers in
> > hopes that they will think your email address is invalid and remove
> > you from their spam lists.
> 
> Doesn't work.  The economics of mailing spam pretty much precludes them
> from maintaining their lists of addresses:  Their strategy is to send
> out incredible numbers of copies to every address they can grab,
> arranged so as to evade consequences (including bounces), and hope to
> earn a marginal living from the few "hits".

yeah, agreed.  Usually the From addr is either forged or shut down by
this stage.

--j.