Subj : Spam
To   : JAY EMRIE
From : Gerald Miller
Date : Sat Nov 20 2004 12:55 pm

Hello JAY,

    Responding to a post in the WINDOWS area:
    On Friday November 19 2004 at 21:26,
    JAY EMRIE [1:123/140] wrote to ALL,
    about: Spam

 JE> I regularly blacklist and delete all my new spam. Would it be better
 JE> to bounce new spam as well or would that just clog up the system even
 JE> more with no desirable results?

Think about this: if you were a spammer, would you be checking the
"spamming mailbox" for responses?

In the short time that I've been using MWP (MailWasher Pro), I've come to
the conclusion that it probably serves no useful purpose to bounce the spam
back to the sender (some of the stuff that I've been getting has an
originating email address that is my own address and others have no email
address at all).

The spammers usually set up a fake email address for a "one-shot" mass
mail-out once they have their list of recipients, then they abandon that
fake address and repeat the process.  For example, I receive the identical
email message constantly from multiple senders, so I just set up my filters
to automatically mark the message for deletion every time I receive a
message that has specific phrases within the body of the message or
keywords in the subject line...

           Cheers ... Gerald

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