Originally Posted by Gordon Scott
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Spammers have wrecked that. Now some mail just gets lost/dumped. Very little gets returned as undelivered because spammers spoof the various From and Sender fields, that causes even more 'backscatter' than the amount of spam. <...>

The spambots also create random e-mail receiver messages. If one gets returned, it is logged as a legitimate e-mail address and can be sold to other spammers.

The same thing can happen if you click “unsubscribe” to some spam messages.

So when my web host nukes a spam, they don't respond, but hold it in quarantine for about 30 days. Which is noble, but it takes a lot of time to sift through hundreds per day just to see if a false positive got in there. That's why I ask “if you didn't get a response, try again”.

The Internet gives us a wonderful world at our fingertips, but there are some downsides that we just have to put up with.

And with AI, spams and malware is getting more difficult to detect.

Bob "Notes" Norton smile Norton Music
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