[Sderby] Junk mail, lets get our own back 8)

[Ashley Heath]

One other thing to consider is that most spammers use made up return addresses which means they will never get your mail, the end result leaves you receiving more mail when the delivery failure comes back to you.

Ash

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:29:05 +0000
Tony Martin <tony.martin11@ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Thanks for taking the time, I shall have a good look through these ideas 
> most of which seem to make sense on a quick wizz through.  The emails I 
> have got  recently have been from Yahoo or other similar email 
> providers. They only have a small storage capacity which should not be 
> hard to fill up, blocking any unsuspecting punters from being caught and 
> annoying the spammer. I take your point about using bandwidth, but 
> perhaps the overall effect will be to lower spam if these people get a 
> quick and strong response. If everyone emailed straight back and blocked 
> them there would be no point in them doing it and so this problem will 
> go away.
> As for other types of email I am sure your suggestions are the better 
> solution, but maybe for this type of  thing this method may work. I 
> don't have much time and also suffer from carpel tunnel syndrom so can 
> do limited typing.
> 
> Thanks again, and I shall have a good look through.
> 
> Cheers
> Tony