Hello Abigail, Friday, August 22, 2003, 1:25:10 AM, you wrote:
> On Thursday, August 21, 2003, 2:59:15 PM, Cyberspace Publishing commented: CP>> Abigail, I would tend to agree with you except for one fact that CP>> I cannot ignore - since I changed the "From:" address for the CP>> bouncing, my spam has *noticeably* decreased! > I do REAL bouncing at the server level, and I don't > particularly see decreases as a result of bounces. That is, > my logs are still showing spam email to addresses that have > been disabled and returning "user unknown" for years. So I > think your experience is anecdotal -- it may be true for > you, but that doesn't mean it works for others. I know of at least three people who got several hundreds, in one case thousands, of bounces because the spammer was nice enough to use their email address in the from field! -- Regards, Jurgen Using The Bat! v1.63 Beta/11 http://www.ritlabs.com/the_bat/index.html ____ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
