JAY EMRIE wrote to ADAM CLARK:
JE> 
JE> I NEVER reply to a spam - period!

Heh, that's good to hear.

JE> I use MailWasher to delete and bounce the spam messages.

I'm not sure what the point of bouncing a spam would be.  Bouncing a message
presupposes that the email is coming from an address that can receive mail. 
Many spammers use misconfigured mail servers (open relays) to do their dirty
work, and bouncing a message back to them will either disappear into the
ether (you can't trust a misconfigured smtp server to do anything properly)
or will come back at 'ya with a 'no such address' type of message.

Also, you wind up generating more email traffic that's not going to do any
good.  AFAIK, the only real good ways to deal with spam once the spam winds
up in your mailbox (ie, after passing filter checks, etc.) is to either just
nuke it or report it to the appropriate people.

JE> Until very recently the messages were bounced. Within
JE> the last few weeks -3-4 many bounced spams come up with
JE> "no such address" or words to that effect or my ISP will not
JE> send messages to that address.
JE> 
JE> At about the same time as this started my ISP offered spam
JE> filtering. I have to check, but I guess that is the cause -
JE> maybe I'd be better off using my ISP's spam offering.
JE> maybe I'd be better off using my ISP's spam offering.


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