Blocking and deleting just does not seem to work as delivery is assumed to have occurred. Most serious spammers are now using a number of highly automated programs and I can only assume that these things take notice of "dead / bounced" accounts. Certainly, after only a week of running MailWasher, my spam count (Yes dear, I said spam !!) has dropped dramatically.
In a perverse way I am dissappointed - I was getting something of a small "kick" out of being proactive on the issue rather than just taking all this spam in and deleting same.
If anyone is interested in learning more about spam and the massive attempts that are going on behind the scenes to combat it - here are a couple of links. However the real answer is some positive, global, legal intervention. Not this washy "Opt-Out" nonsense that is currently in use.
That sending a "Bounced" email back is a waste of bandwidth is a marginal argument. If one "bounce" email back stops many more to your address, then it is a saving.
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