-=> Mocking Chris Evans to Kurt Wismer <=-
   
 KW> then the junkmailers will be tying up bandwidth sending
 KW> messages that go nowhere...
 CE> Well, better that they go nowhere than to real ppl :-)  The big junk
 CE> mailer says they mail 4 million a day. 
i don't know about that... how much time is a system going to spend
trying to find 1 invalid address? how much time is it going to spend
trying to find 1,000 of them?
and it won't necessarily be the junkmailers system that goes around
looking for those addresses either... someones service is going to
suffer somewhere...
 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...
 CE> Yes that has resulted in AOL and CIS taking steps to get rid of the
 CE> spammers/junkers that were using their services.  But when I try to
 CE> return junk/spam it always comes back as undeliverable, so their
 CE> address is phoney.
if you can veiw the full header instead of that little bit that mail
readers like pine are sometimes configured to show then you might be
able to find the actual postmaster for their system...
 CE> Even when they have a Remove feature for getting
 CE> off their lists it doesn't work, and the mags say they use the
 CE> 'remove' feature to tell them that you are a 'live' address to keep
 CE> using rather than a dead one.  To be able to sell their spam lists
 CE> they have to keep their ratio of working addresses to 80% of their
 CE> list. 
yeah, so i've discovered...
lucky me, i found that out AFTER i tried it a few times...
what amazes me is that i can get up to 7 junkmails a day just from a
couple posts in alt.comp.virus...
... "wheres polonius?"-"he's at supp'... with the worms"...
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