tried BounceSpamMail?

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Neowulf (Aaron VonDerheide)

My spam is decreasing since I tried BounceSpamMail once. I don't know if
it's coincidental or not, as I ONLY used it for one spam mailing, and I'm
getting dozens fewer than before.

Does anybody know if it's safe to open one of those Swen worm e-mails in
either Eudora, Pegasus, or a Web-based interface? I wanna try bouncing it,
but I don't dare open 'em.


Aaron (neowulf NOSPAM @ earthlink.net)
 
Neowulf (Aaron VonDerheide) said:
My spam is decreasing since I tried BounceSpamMail once. I don't know if
it's coincidental or not, as I ONLY used it for one spam mailing, and I'm
getting dozens fewer than before.

Does anybody know if it's safe to open one of those Swen worm e-mails in
either Eudora, Pegasus, or a Web-based interface? I wanna try bouncing it,
but I don't dare open 'em.


Aaron (neowulf NOSPAM @ earthlink.net)
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I couldn't find a site describing the program in English, and
http://www.bouncespam.com/ only indicates that it is "comming soon." Does
BounceSpamMail just bounce messages to the sender in the (almost certainly
forged) "from" field as MailWasher does? If so, you're not really bouncing
the message back to the true original sender. This is why I no longer use
the MailWasher "bounce" feature. Is this "BounceSpamMail" thing more
intelligent than MailWasher?

Ian.
 
Ionizer wrote in said:
Does
BounceSpamMail just bounce messages to the sender in the (almost certainly
forged) "from" field as MailWasher does?
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I don't know (don't know the software), but agree with your "almost
certainly forged" comment. And not just the "From", but also the
"Return-Path" and "Received" headers with senders IP is often forged.

It sounds to me OP could benefit from reading David Harris recent
paper about Spam - for better understanding - downloadable in PDF
format from <http://www.pmail.com/spamwp.htm>.

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
 
I don't know (don't know the software), but agree with your "almost
certainly forged" comment. And not just the "From", but also the
"Return-Path" and "Received" headers with senders IP is often forged.

It sounds to me OP could benefit from reading David Harris recent
paper about Spam - for better understanding - downloadable in PDF
format from <http://www.pmail.com/spamwp.htm>.
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Yes agreed to both statements... and that article is very interesting
of what spam is and isn't and the different views on how to combat it...



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Does anybody know if it's safe to open one of those Swen worm e-mails in
either Eudora, Pegasus, or a Web-based interface? I wanna try bouncing it,
but I don't dare open 'em.
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The e-mails are fine, it's the attachment you don't want to touch.
 
(e-mail address removed) - 21.10.2003 13:58 :

hint: do never bounce spammail! Most/~99.9 percent of them dont have a
right From-/Sender address. And the bandwidth worldwide grows and grows
immense. So I have disabled the bounce feature in WebWasher for example.
 
I wanna try bouncing it,
but I don't dare open 'em.
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All you'd be doing is increasing the volume of spam and, possibly,
penalizing an innocent bystander. Pity there's no way to _charge_ the
perpetrators of this kind of silliness. This one's almost as stupid as
that silly "mailwasher" thing.
 
I wanna try bouncing it,
but I don't dare open 'em.
Click to expand...
All you'd be doing is increasing the volume of spam and, possibly,
penalizing an innocent bystander. Pity there's no way to _charge_ the
perpetrators of this kind of silliness. This one's almost as stupid as
that silly "mailwasher" thing.
 
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