You think spammers will drop your email address from thier lists if they start getting mail returned as undeliverable?

[notfred]

I have an email address that I use as a "spam address" which I only check once a week at most, looking for a specific email from someone who I needed to give a valid address to, but who I don't trust with my personal email address. I expect this account to get spam.

However, it gets a LOT of spam. Think if I deleted the account for a week or two so that spammers got thier mail returned, they'd take my address off thier lists? Then I could open up the account again in a week, and get less spam than before, if it worked.

 

[dabuddha]

I don't think it will make a difference at all unfortunately.

 

[Radiohead]

No I don't think so either

The second you reactivate that account, you'll get a spam email about some breast enhancements cr@p

 

[CrazyDe1]

Nope..doesn't work...they won't check their boxes. A lot of times it's an automated list that they throw in a spammer and it spams everyone on the list...they don't really take the time to delete people off these lists...

 

[Anubis]

wouldent matter

 

[pyonir]

most of the spam i get doesn't even have a valid return address anyway, so they would never know.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: Radiohead
No I don't think so either

The second you reactivate that account, you'll get a spam email about some breast enhancements cr@p

Long as there's pics, how is that a bad thing?

- M4H

 

[dpm]

That sounds like the premise of some anti-spam program I tried for a few months. Can't remember what it was called, but it was supposed to filter spam and bounce it back as undeliverable.

The result? I got more spam :disgust:

 

[Mallow]

no harm in trying

 

[iamme]

i think they should add spam to "death and taxes", regarding the only certain things in life.

 

[RossMAN]

Damn, I was hoping to start using PINE to check my e-mail and bounce SPAM back.

That would probably bounce right back to me

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: pyonir
most of the spam i get doesn't even have a valid return address anyway, so they would never know.

DING DING

since the email doesn't contain a valid return address , the undeliverable message goes into never never land, they don't get them

don't waste your time

 

They don't care at all. They just buy a CD of one-million names and let the spamming software rip through it overnight. They probably never even see the bounce messages.

 

[BooGiMaN]

i wish someone come up with a sight that published recent working known addresses, real and email addys, of known spammers

 

[MrBond]

An email address stays in circulation a LONG time. Here's an example.

When I first got online, I had an email address with the BBS I was a sysop at. It was MyFirstName.Lastname@domain.com. The internet was still relativly new, and I used that email address for internet email. I'd get a few spam emails, so I'd respond asking to be taken off their list (which at the time (I was unaware of this) would get you added to a bunch more lists).

In 1996, I stopped using that email address in favor of myfirstname@domain.com, which was my first real internet mail address.

I STILL get spam to my first email address to this day. When the BBS shut down, I just set it up as an internet email address because some people still had that one. It forwards to my main address now.

My email box is so clogged with spam, it's not even funny. I have one virgin email address left I think, I'm going to switch to that one as soon as I take the time to get ahold of someone at the ISP and have them delete all other accounts.

 

[Need4Speed]

prolly not, as my mail server sends undelieverable replies all the time, but the same spammer keeps showing his ugly face in my logs.