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From: Tony Hoyle <tmh@magenta-netlogic.com>
To: "'carlo@alinoe.com'" <carlo@alinoe.com>,
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Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Getting yourself removed from spam lists
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: carlo@alinoe.com [mailto:carlo@alinoe.com]
> Sent: 13 September 2002 14:21
> To: spamassassin-talk@example.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [SAtalk] Getting yourself removed from spam lists
>
> I get the feeling that the spammers never
> remove emails from their lists.

Correct...

> On the other hand, that doesn't make sense:
> wouldn't they get worried about their millions
> of spams being wasted?  Don't they WANT *some*
> prove that they indeed *reach* people somehow?

No, they only have to prove that they send several million
emails to 'potential clients' to get their money.  I don't think
they even care much about bounces.  They're con-artists, why
should they care about proving they actually reached people?
 
> So... it seems to me that they DO clean up
> their lists, but only when a spam fails to
> deliver - or can't they detect that?

Most of the time the bounce goes to some poor soul who has
nothing to do with the spammer.

> What do spammers do with email addresses in
> their database that are undeliverable for a
> few years?  Do they still continue to spam
> them?

Yes.

Tony


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