on 3/15/2002 9:25 PM, Jim Robertson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A week or two ago someone suggested using a "Bouncer" applescript as an > anti-spam weapon. I obtained a copy and tried it. The notion is that the > spam recipient can extricate himself from the spam recipient list by telling > the sender that the email address to which the spam was sent is invalid. > > The only problem with this on the half dozen spam bounces I've tried is that > the spammer has, in each instance, faked his own email address, so there's > no where to bounce the message TOO!
Jim, Bouncer looks through the headers for a valid server to "bounce" to, it never looks at the "From" or "Reply-To" headers. Often what happens is that by the time you bounce the message back, either the ISP or the spammer has already closed the account, so you get a bounce back that the account isn't valid. -- Glenn L. Austin <>< <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone: (360) 281-5436 -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
