Absolutely true - they never want to clean up their lists - We are still rejecting mail to accounts from spammers that were closed out seven years ago.
Todd -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Hodgson Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 11:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Re: [OT] What is next step? On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:13:52AM -0400, VonEssen, John wrote: > We also assume that they clean their list when address appears to be bad. I've seen no evidence of this. The only thing I've seen for certain is that the older an E-mail address is (once it has gotten on at least one spammer's list), the more spam it gets. Regardless of whether it's bounced or not. Spammers are still selling each other E-mail addresses I haven't used in 4 years. -- "You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free." -- Clarence Darrow ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The SF.net Donation Program. Do you like what SourceForge.net is doing for the Open Source Community? Make a contribution, and help us add new features and functionality. Click here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The SF.net Donation Program. Do you like what SourceForge.net is doing for the Open Source Community? Make a contribution, and help us add new features and functionality. Click here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk