[Gllug] Paying to send email..

[Chris Bell]

On Thu 09 Feb, Paul Rayner wrote:
> 

> If *everyone* responded to spam, that might actually have more of an 
> impact. At present, $spammer sends out 10 million emails. If 1 million 
> get through, and one person responds, it's worth his while. If (s)he 
> gets 10,000 responses, 9,999 of which are people trying to waste his 
> time back, (s)he will be overloaded with, er, spam!
> 
> Sadly, there is a flaw - it would become an easy way to DDOS someone - 
> send spam with their contact details in it and they'd get a load of 
> replies, all from valid domains etc.
> 
> I believe some Register readers reply to 419 scammers with increasingly 
> more ridiculous stories as a hobby.

   I receive very little spam because most is ditched on the way. Anything
that does arrive has the IP address of the sender in the header,
authenticated by my ISP, and is ALWAYS returned to the sender's ISP, with a
copy to the internet information exchange system as recommended by my ISP.
   I have the advantages that my system completely ignores attachments, web
references, included machine instructions, etc, and has a very simple easy
to use editor which allows me to include the complete email and header, with
each line preceeded by a marker.

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Chris Bell

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