On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Brad 'GreyBear' Davis wrote:
> Bouncing a message is going to eat at least as many, and almost certainly
> more, CPU cycles than quietly flushing it out the port, but it does have the
> satisfaction of knowing that you are spamming them as much as they are
> spamming you.
I figure every time they send "RCPT TO" to my SMTP server, my machine does
a lookup (a vrfy and/or an expn, for those of you following along at
home<G>). I'd rather hang up on them at that point than go through the
immense trouble of delivering the message data to /dev/null. :-)
OK, really now... It's the principle!
> And of course you can always send back a canned message alerting them of the
> fact that their spam is unsolicited and therefore technically illegal in
> many parts of the globe.
Actually, most of the time, you CAN'T do that. It's increasingly rare
(oxymoron?) to see a valid email address in an unsolicited commercial
email message. 1-800 numbers seem to be catching on though, and I rather
like the personal touch. Not sure if FCC prohibitions on calling people
and cursing at them apply in this scenario, so be careful out there. You
can also note the web site (if they have one) and notify the admins there
(angelfire is usually quick to pull the plug).
If you feel like joining in, help me bitch at sprint until the they pull
the plug on http://www.bulkisp.com
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