IS THERE A WAY TO BOUNCE JUNK MAIL?

[Guest]

JUNK MAIL SENDERS DO NOT NOW RECOGNIZE YOUR UNSUBSCRIBING AND CHANGE
FREQUENTLY THEIR XMIT ADDRESS. I JUST WONDER IF THERE IS A WAY TO TURN THEIR
MAIL BACK TO THEM. WE MUST RECOGNIZE THE JUNK SENDER, WHICH OUTLOOK DOES,
AND BOUNCE TO THEM. BASICALLY JAMMING THEIR XMITTER.

 

[Guest]

Outlook doesn't do this -- you might want to check out one of the 3rd party
spam blocking programs listed at
http://www.slipstick.com/rules/junkmail.htm#tools.

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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[Brian Tillman]

JUNK MAIL SENDERS DO NOT NOW RECOGNIZE YOUR UNSUBSCRIBING

Lose the caps lock key.

They never have. SPAMmers want to you click unsubscribe links so that they
know your address is valid and can sell it to other SPAMmers.

AND CHANGE
FREQUENTLY THEIR XMIT ADDRESS. I JUST WONDER IF THERE IS A WAY TO
TURN THEIR MAIL BACK TO THEM. WE MUST RECOGNIZE THE JUNK SENDER,
WHICH OUTLOOK DOES, AND BOUNCE TO THEM. BASICALLY JAMMING THEIR
XMITTER.

You don't understand how most SPAM works. SPAMmers usually don't send their
spew with legitimate addresses as the sender addresses. They either use
fake addresses that don't exist or they use the hijacked addresses of
unsuspecting victims. If you were to bounce a message back to the sender
address, it either would itself bounce because the sender address was fake
(thereby increasing the garbage traffic on the Internet) or it would land in
the mailbox of the address they hijacked, causing confusion to the
recipient. In neither case would you "jam their xmitter".

 

[Guest]

JUNK MAIL SENDERS DO NOT NOW RECOGNIZE YOUR UNSUBSCRIBING AND CHANGE
FREQUENTLY THEIR XMIT ADDRESS. I JUST WONDER IF THERE IS A WAY TO TURN THEIR
MAIL BACK TO THEM. WE MUST RECOGNIZE THE JUNK SENDER, WHICH OUTLOOK DOES,
AND BOUNCE TO THEM. BASICALLY JAMMING THEIR XMITTER.

J FIORELLO SUGGEST OTHER ASSETS TO CHECK OUT. THANKS VERY MUCH.
B TILLMAN GAVE A GREAT CLASS ON HOW SPAM WORKS. thanks, i appreciate the
information. esentially my question is answered in that outlook is not
designed to do what i requested. thanks verry much to all. jw

 

[Donald McDaniel]

JUNK MAIL SENDERS DO NOT NOW RECOGNIZE YOUR UNSUBSCRIBING AND CHANGE
FREQUENTLY THEIR XMIT ADDRESS. I JUST WONDER IF THERE IS A WAY TO TURN THEIR
MAIL BACK TO THEM. WE MUST RECOGNIZE THE JUNK SENDER, WHICH OUTLOOK DOES,
AND BOUNCE TO THEM. BASICALLY JAMMING THEIR XMITTER.

Why do you want to bounce junk mail? The bounced email of spammers
hardly ever returns to their email servers, and in many cases,
bouncing this email just jams up the email servers of those who have
been victimized by the spammers.

Bouncing junk email, while it may give you momentary satisfaction, or
a false feeling of having accomplished a strike against spammers,
never helps the situation. All it does is add billions of more
useless Internet packets. In the long run this is more damaging than
the few items of junk email you receive in your inbox.

Just turn on your junk mail filters and delete it as it comes in.
Even better, stop going into porno chat rooms, and start munging your
email address in your Usenet client.

If you're getting flooded daily with spam mail, perhaps it is time to
change your email address. After you change your email address, be
careful who you give it to. Also, use a secondary account, such as
Yahoo or MSN when you send email to strangers.


Donald L McDaniel
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