Spammed

[Jorge Almeida]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Bill Campbell wrote:

>> I know that not replying to spammers is good practice for individuals,
>> but does it apply to non-open lists?
>
> I don't see how this would affect spammers since only a tiny
> fraction of spam mail has meaningful sender addresses.  It might
It wouldn't. What I meant is that it seems it wouldn't adversely affect
the list (an individual would be at risk of receiving more spam, since
the spammers would pass on the news that they had found a live one).
> even be useful for somebody to get the deferral message in that
> they might figure out that their Microsoft virus was being used
> by spammers.
Right.
>

Jorge