Richard
"Excellent post! "
Thank you
. I have, on re-reading what I wrote, noticed a whole load of typring 'orrors which
I'm sure weren't there when I posted it...
I really ought to go back and correct them... [my only defence is that writing it provided "light relief" while my network ops. staff went and disconnected a rogue multicast server which was saturating part of our network
with a pair of wire cutters
)
That is why I hate hearing people say they just delete instead of bouncing, etc. because they do not want to waste bandwidth, etc.
The other reason you don't want to reply is that these days, more often then not, the sender address is either bogus or even worse, legitimate but forged to some innocent third party. So at best any attempt to reply will go nowhere (beacuse the address is completely bogus) or at worst complaints go and clog up some poor unsuspecting innocent's mailbox instead. (This goes for complaints about most viruses too, BTW. They almost always forge legitimate but completely unrelated sender addresses.) So no only does the spammer have the cheek to spam you in the first place, but then should you actually want to avail yourself of the service offered
then you'll have to jump through hoops to do it, since the
expected technique of simply replying has been broken due to the fact that the reply address would get flooded by complaints ! Pah
And
if you reply, even if only to complain, they know which of there zillions of email addresses are actually live, as opposed to ones which are simply dormant.
126,7
I have two different emails from two different providers. Both are on my email client and both get rejected by a host in Africa because of the smtp server I use. The returned mail uses the wording "because of previous spamming incidents" and gives the smtp server's name.
I dont spam and never have. So could it be that someone has abused the same ISP that I use?
If the host in Africa
is rejecting your email due an RBL they
really should identify which one it is so that you can report this to your ISP. However this information
may be in the
message headers -- come back to us if you need more help with that.
One thing that I really ought to clarify is that there are a number of RBLs, each operating their own listing policy; that is what crieteria they use to decide if and when they are going to list a given server/ISP, and under what circumstances, and, perhaps more importantly, how quickly, they will remove an entry. It is up to potential subscribers to an RBL service to determine whether its listing policy is appropriate to the type of users that it has...
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to be continued... ]