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Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Re: Beware: Another scam Paypal message
From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 06:58:20 -0700
At 06:26 AM 01/03/2004, John Hermanson wrote:

>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%.

I've been using Mailwasher Pro for over 4 months now, and I still get 
around 700 spam e-mails a day.  While its bounce function is a good one, 
and I have nothing but praise for the program's functionality, many 
spammers never even use return addresses that are real -- rather, it's just 
a bogus address in the first place.  They're into bulk e-mailing, *not* 
checking the bounces to see whether the e-mails they use are "good."  It's 
just cheaper for them to squirt their pickle at every possible e-mail 
address in the known galaxy.  Checking bounced messages is labour-intensive 
and therefore too costly.


Garth 


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