That is, do you bounce the spam emails that you are inundated with?

For the most part, I never did. At times the program I use would have an email checked to be bounced, and usually I unchecked it. I had this fear that somehow, by having the email returned to ‘nowhere land‘, that the sending spammer would realize my address was real, or get my address.

Now I am re-thinking that whole concept.

I notice that in some cPanel options, there is the ‘blackhole‘ option for setting up your email clients. And with the recent influx of spam, I decided to start ‘bouncing‘ the email spam I was getting.

Interestingly, the normal daily deluge has become consistently less over the last few days, since I began to bounce the spam. So I am wondering now, is it fact or fiction, that bouncing works better than ignoring them?  For now I am leaning towards ‘fact‘ but hell, not like I know.

Be interesting to see what others experienced on this.

Seems too, that the spam filters are slowly falling by the wayside. Always amazes me how these programs are always one step behind, and even when they aren’t, the damn crap finds a way through the security curtain. The more I listen to others, the more I realize that these filters actually catch more ‘legit‘ emails, than spam.

Is the solution to require verification at all levels, for accepting emails? 

Posted on September 24th, 2007 by Gaystoryman
Filed under: General