"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in
m:


bz wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in
:

James Sweet wrote:

I'm in the US and I despise spam, more than one email address I've
had has been rendered useless by the enormous volume of spam that
makes it in. I've had much better luck since I switched to gmail and
set up a number of disposable email forwards through trashmail.net,
now whenever I start getting spam from one, I can just drop it and
switch to another.


I use 'Mailwasher' to bounce the garbage as undeliverable.

NO!!!!!
NEVER bounce mail unless you can _guarantee_ that it goes to the ACTUAL
sender!!!!


I look at the headers, and bounce it back when the IP address matches
the server name.

That IS correct and a responsible thing to do.

AUTOMATIC bounces, as done by some software, IS abusive, however.


I was getting over 2000 pieces of junk a week when I
started. It quickly dropped to less than a dozen, and some of those are
from zombies on broadband connections. By bouncing those, their ISP can
spot the problem and tell them to fix their computer, or close their
account. There are millions of bounce from bad or closed e-mail
accounts every day. Some of the spammers remove the bounces form their
lists.

Most don't care. They get paid by numbers sent not delivered!

The spam with 50 or more addresses in the headers is sent by
those who don't give a damn.

Many spam with only one address in the header are sent by those who don't
give a hoover.


I am down to less than a dozen bounces a week. Some domains are
blacklisted by me and my E-mail server, along with Mailwashers checks
the spamcop and other blacklists.

I see our mail server rejecting dozens each day, thanks to various RBLs
that we use. I maintain it to continue relaying mail targeting old email
server addresses. It forwards to our new e-mail addresses.





--
bz 73 de N5BZ k

please pardon my infinite ignorance, the set-of-things-I-do-not-know is an
infinite set.

remove ch100-5 to avoid spam trap