On Thu, 25 May 2006 22:39:46 -0400, "Morgans"
wrote:


"Jerry Springer" wrote

And you are so naive that you don't know that spammers are sending spam to
your phony email address, then being bounced back?

So if you put your address down as jerry at springer dot net, the spam bots
are going to pick it up, and boounce it back?

Very easy to parse. I'd use look up tables, but it could be done with
IFTHEN statements.

We were doing more complicated stuff than that by the second year in
CS.

OTOH Many years back I had an address that suddenly started getting a
lot of spam. virtually nothing one day and the next I noticed
something was wrong with my e-mail. It appeared to be downloading, but
I wasn't seeing any results. So I logged into the server to look at my
account. It still had well over 400 messages to go. I deleted the
account without bothering to sort it. Last Fall (after a few years) I
thought I'd try that old address. The first day I activated it there
were something like 20 to 30 messages and none legit. I again deleted
that account.

Most of the spam that gets to my filters is either to this address
after it's fixed, or to one specific reflector which is the only place
I use that address. My filters just mark it read and put it into a
folder I can check for false positives.

One of the 7 deadly Internet sins is bouncing mail back. It does
absolutely nothing to the spammer.For a while there were a number of
programs that were doing that which resulted in many millions of
bounced e-mails a day.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

I seriously doubt it.