[geeks] to click on "unsubscribe" or not...?

[hike]

NEVER respond to SPAMMERS
you will only encourage them
(answering proves that your email address is "live"




On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Mike Meredith <very at zonky.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:56:43 -0400 (EDT), Sandwich Maker wrote:
> > you might have success with a procmail recipe that bounces it with a
> > forged smtp 'address invalid' code.
>
> Possibly, but I doubt it.
>
> Spammers frequently intentionally redirect the backsplatter to innocent
> third parties giving them little opportunity to 'clean' their address
> lists.
>
> As evidence, I'm still getting spam at "eredith at cv.port.ac.uk" despite
> the fact that was never a valid email address and the correct address
> (meredith at cv.port.ac.uk) hasn't been used since the mid 1990s. Yes
> spammers have been known to suffer from fencepost errors :)
>
>
>
> --
> Mike Meredith (http://zonky.org/)
>  A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a
> State -- Zhuangzi
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