When you download spam (and don't open it) the sender knows that atleast
email address is working. Even using Mailwasher (which deletes them from
the server without downloading and sends a bounce message ((as if my email
address is bad)), spam percentage remains around 30%.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne Harridge" <wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 2:56 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Re: Beware: Another scam Paypal message
>
>
> > Seems to me the real long-term solution to spam is to not
> > ever respond. If it were a total waste of time, eventually
> > the spammers would get tired or burnt out on sending 100
> > million messages and getting -no- takers on their bogus
> > offers and scummy deals.
>
> Very bloody long term solution ! How many SPAMmers are there ? You
> think they care if 99.99% don't respond, hasn't worked for me over the
> last 5 years, SPAM increasing all the time and I never respond to SPAM
> messages.
>
> ...Wayne
>
>
>
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