On 27/07/2007, at 11:06 AM, Rob Davies wrote:
Morning
On 25/07/2007, at 10:07 AM, Adam Hewitt wrote:
Do not "bounce" these or any SPAM email. The sender is usually
either a
bogus account name/domain in which case you are only causing load
on your
ISP's server, or in the case of viruses the sender is a harvested
email
address out of someone else's address book, therefore bouncing it is
returning it to the wrong person.
Bouncing causes no more hassle to your ISP than what has already
been caused by this harvested address, and by bouncing the address
you have alerted email servers and spam lists not too send anymore.
Hence, halting further usage of said address unless of course the
original spam was sent individually to specific addresses and not
as part of a batch job or cc'd. Either way you should not receive
anymore Spam from that address and others within their network,
including ISP - network provider.
Cheers!
`Rob...
I agree with Adam .... Do not "Bounce" SPAM emails .... Delete them
immediately ... don't click on anything in them!
Pretty much all spam uses fake sender addresses, so that bouncing
does nothing but generate yet another unwanted message to an
otherwise uninvolved third party.
If everybody bounced spam, then that would double the number of
unwanted messages out there.
IT Security is a good website to read for ways to Eliminate Spam from
your Inbox.
<http://www.itsecurity.com/features/email-inbox-security-011107/>
Cheers,
Ronni
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