-=PCTechTalk=- Re: : MailWasher program
- From: "barnestoneworth" <barneystorm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:38:31 +0100
----- Original Message -----
From: "cris" <cris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> opinions in forums is that even this message is most likely ignored by the
> spammers. They have their list they send to - it's all set, computer
generated.
> They aren't likely going to look at e-mails that are returned to them and
take
> the time to remove people from their cd's and main address databases -
and, if
> they are set to acknowledge a response from the spam, this triggers a
positive
> 'hit' rather than a bounced message.
>
> so - this is just food for thought - and you may or may not reduce the
spam you
> receive from bouncing. when I started to use mail washer years ago, I
believe
> that it cut my spam down. Now, my spam is growing and I get the same spam
to the
> same address over and over (sent from different forged addresses) - And
the
> spammers are using more sophisticated methods of generating their spam -
and
> harvesting addresses.
You are never going to stop the real spammers sending their crap to you,
bouncing or not, but you WILL cut out some that are set up to delete an
address on a bounce..
Using mailwasher certainly beats trying to set up message rules...I've got
VIAGRA, Viagra and viagra blocked..but now of course thy are sending out
v'iagra or vi'agra or via'gra or..(you get the picture, right??)..It's got
to the stage where it's virtually impossible to create rules that block it
out.
Andy
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