-=PCTechTalk=- Re: : MailWasher program
- From: "cris" <cris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 07:42:16 -0400
bouncing of e-mails is a controversial part of mail washer. I've always bounced
mail - but am being more cautious as of the past few days when I was reading in
the forums about it - but!!
over 90% of what you bounce is not going anywhere legit because the address is
most likely forged. So - over 90% of bounces are either being lost in
cyberspace - taking up band width, or being bounced to people's server's and to
people, whose addresses have been used as forgeries.
If a legitmate bounce occurs, this is what it says: (sent myself an e-mail and
bounced it back to me) -
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The original message was received at Tue, 21 Oct 2003 14:22:43 -0500
from acs-24-154-239-238.zoominternet.net
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<cris@xxxxxxxxxx>
(expanded from: <cris@xxxxxxxxxx>)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
mail.local: unknown name: cris
550 <cris@xxxxxxxxxx>... User unknown
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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.
CrisS
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From: barnestoneworth
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Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 5:41 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: : MailWasher program
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Ross" <jross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 11:44 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: : MailWasher program
> So is the mailwash good to use and have or not: bottom line?
Without a doubt, yes...and bouncing e mails DOES have an effect on SOME of
the stuff you get in your mailbox, it certainly doesn't indicate to the
sender that it's found an active account..
Andy
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