[junk mail]
KW> CE> and I see more ppl placing such things as
KW> CE> REMOVE_ME in their e-addresses to throw off the auto spam bots that
KW> then the junkmailers will be tying up bandwidth sending
KW> messages that go nowhere...
Well, better that they go nowhere than to real ppl :-)  The big junk mailer 
says they mail 4 million a day.
KW> a better way to deal with them is to mail their postmasters
KW> and tell them of the abuse the user in question is guilty of...
Yes that has resulted in AOL and CIS taking steps to get rid of the 
spammers/junkers that were using their services.  But when I try to return 
junk/spam it always comes back as undeliverable, so their address is phoney. 
Even when they have a Remove feature for getting off their lists it doesn't 
work, and the mags say they use the 'remove' feature to tell them that you 
are a 'live' address to keep using rather than a dead one.  To be able to 
sell their spam lists they have to keep their ratio of working addresses to 
80% of their list.
KW> (of course i've recently decided to explore the possibility
KW> of giving
KW> junkmailers each others addresses so that they wind up
KW> collectively mail
KW> bombing each other and learning the error of their ways..)
Very cool!  Get that working and you'll be the new Net hero!
-Chris.
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