Chris Evans wrote to Kurt Wismer in virus_info:
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.  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.
Some are fake addresses. Some are real (they give return addresses in the
message body). Those get a computer consultancy bill for several thousand 
uid
for reviewing of sales items ;-)
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   William Hargrave                2:254/211.20
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