[H-GEN] Email filtering

[Robert Brockway]

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On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, David Duffy wrote:

> Is dropping still better than rejecting even with known spammers?
> I mean, if the get a reject, do they remove your address?

Most of the time the headers are forged, so some poor innocent person gets
the bounce message, not the evil spammer[1].  Even if the evil spammer
does get the bounce, indications are that they will not remove you from
their list of addresses.

[1] This is not to imply that their are any good spammers.

Rob

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