> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 04:39:56AM -0700, John Green wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
> A better way might be to add a constant to all the addresses. Such as,
> in the case of Eric, "Eric" 123ewdysar@whatever.com The "123" is added
> to all addresses, and removed manually before sending emails. This might
> also have the benefit of filling the spammers mailbox with returned
> messages.
>
Actually it doesn't fill the spammer's mailbox with returned messages,
it fills the mailbox of some random other person who they choose to be
the sender with returned messages. None of these operations are silly
enough to use one of their own real email addresses as the sender of
these spamming runs.
There is no real solution to the problem while the human race is
collectively stupid. 'spam' as an advertising tool works. It's big
business. There are enough people out there who respond positively to
make it all worth it.
All we can do is try our best.
(Speaking as a sysadmin, who has run mail servers in the past AND has
been at the receiving end of 'back scatter' from a spamming run where
they used MY email address as the originator of the messages!)
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