Jerry Springer wrote:
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?

I seriously doubt it.

The spam bot have figured out that one a long time ago

You don't think that the spam bot are looking at your FROM address?

I don't know the proper way to describe the protocol but SMTP
provides a feature that allow a connecting client to ask if a
partricular email address is valid on that server and the server
replies with a yes/no. This is done without sending an email.

Typically email address harvesting spamware will immediately
check a harvested address in this manner and reject any
that are invalid--so that more typically the "reality check" is
the only traffic sent when an invalid address is harvested.

HOWEVER, some sysadimns report tha tthe "reality check"
traffic alone is so heavy it would crash their servers if they
did not use blacklisting to refuse connnections from large
parts of netspace.

And of course _some_ spammers illustrate rule #3 in spades
and do send to invalid email addresses.

I used to munge my username to "
on LARTs sent from my work address. Sometimes I mispelt it.
Before long I was getting spam at my work address with
, ,
and a few others in the "Cc: "


The idiot that is worrying about me using my real email address and it
causing clutter and slowing down the net is just that an idiot.

Agreed.

If spammers didn't harvest my email adress and send me spam I
couldn't have their IP space added to the SpamCop blacklist.

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FF