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

[Jak Carr]

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Absolutely. And chances are that even if these addresses are valid (like
temp yahoo ones), once used for a spam run, will NEVER be checked again!
So you'll have wasted your time...

Another classic Spammer trick - aside from temporary, or "disposable" free
email service addresses such as yahoo, is not only to forge address, as
Ashley quite correctly points out - but also to use addresses harvested
from the web or other sources as reply-to addressess! In other words, the
victim of the spammer has their address used by the spammer for replies!

We recently had some pornographer in the states use one of our support
email address for this purpose, and we got some VERY irate messages about
it from people who don't read their mail headers closely enough... heh...
It's still horrible to see a failure message with one of your email
addresses as the reply to with a subject line of HOT GIRLZZZZ or
somesuch...

Point is, some innocent user somewhere gets their mailbox filled up with
your retaliation messages... and the spammer wins.

Jak

>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
>
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