[GreenKeys] RE: EUDORA PRO vs Mailwasher

Sat, 23 Nov 2002 07:20:35 -0500

Hi,

I finally have to jump in on this one.

To the point most Spam is from forged addresses. They are more or less
picked at random. About a month ago they decided to use one attached to
cq.nu (my domain). I now get about 30% of my mail from bounce back daemons
....  Spam on Spam ....

    Fun Fun Fun

        Bob Camp
        KB8TQ

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Farrington" <[email protected]>
To: "Buzz" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] RE: EUDORA PRO vs Mailwasher

> At 08:31 PM 11/21/2002 Buzz wrote on Greenkeys:
>
> >Gentleman,
> >.....the nice thing about mailwasher is that it bounces the message back
to
> >the sender.  My spam has dropped from 40% to less that 10%...
>
>
> Almost all of the return E-mail addresses in SPAM are fake or forged, so
> unless the SPAM is from an established company that uses a real address it
> doesn't do any good to bounce it. I use Mailwasher too, but regarding the
> percentage of SPAM I've had the opposite experience from yours - for a
while
> I devoutly bounced every one, but that only seemed to result in a drastic
> increase in SPAM volume: now it runs anywhere from 70% to near 100% every
> day. And I don't have a website or post messages on Usenet, so spammers
> aren't getting my address that way.
>
> Bouncing SPAM is a nice idea, but for now about all most of it
accomplishes
> is to uselessly clutter the E-mail network. The guy who wrote the
Mailwasher
> program says he's working on a new version that'll bounce to the
originating
> server owner instead of the (usually fake) return address, so maybe
that'll
> be an improvement, we'll see. At any rate, it's a pleasure to use the
current
> version to remotely delete junk from the ISP's mail server.
>
> 73
>
> John   KE5ZB
>
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