I get some addresses occasionally bounce messages back with something
like (from an actual bounce message):
(reason: 554 5.7.1 Message seems to be spam, rejected)
although not ALL list messages are rejected by that member's ISP.
Many ISPs, including big ones like AOL, go to great lengths in attempts
to block spam. I hate spam as much as anyone, but if you think about it,
it's just advertising. Check your snail mail, turn on the TV, open a
magazine, take a drive down the street.....advertising permeates your life
everywhere. Why is it such a big deal that it also comes in your e-mail?
Why are the same kind of efforts NOT being made regarding
viruses? They run rampant all over the Internet. They can also be spread
among members of mailing lists, not through the mailing lists themselves,
but by infected list members who have list messages stored on their
computers. The senders of those messages will receive copies of the virus
from the infected member. If all the ISPs attempting to block spam would
block viruses, they would not spread very far at all and just die. They
would not be worth the effort of those low-life scum who create and release
them.
Spammers are NOT going to go away. Viruses COULD go away if people on
the 'net were as determined to defeat them as they are to defeat the
undefeatable spam.
...Bob
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