I have discovered that if I'm going to do a lot of computer work, and I
have my mail retrieval set to 1 minute increments, and I am fast on the
trigger with the bounce button, I can often successfully bounce without
getting a Returned Mail receipt.
The reason I believe it works this way is that the spammers have their
recipient list ready to go, set up a Yahoo email (most often anyhow),
insert all the victim addresses, send, and delete their own address (or
are deleted by default by Yahoo after being identified as a spammer due
to all the traffic they just sent out).
Basically I am bouncing before the spammer gets a chance to disconnect
their address. If I have it set for 5 minutes, not a chance. Of
course, like someone previously, they may ignore the bounces anyhow....
and so it may just be an exercise in futility. I Dunno...
Dave
I like to Bounce 'em, too, but most of the spam that I get has faked
return addresses, so the Bounce doesn't go through, and I get one more
message in my inbox to deal with.
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