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Blitz wrote:
> Why not make it easy on yourself and just add spammers to your "blocked
> sender" list?
Because it does nothing about the spam problem. What you're doing is
essentially what the spammers want you to do: "Don't complain to my ISP!
If you don't want the just hit your delete key. Or unsubscribe."
By the way, unsubscribing is almost always a mistake. All it does is
verify to the spammer that your address is a live deliverable address,
making it more valuable to sell to other spammers.
Spam is a problem growing out of control. AOL estimates that 30% of the
money their customers pay go to protecting AOL's servers and customers
from spam.
When I have the time, I make formal complaints. Occasionally the spammer
loses the account. I have a few "kills" under my belt over the past
couple years.
Some spam is a waste of time to complain about (like anything originating
from att.net, uunet.net, or from Asia [chinanet.cn.net, kornet.net,
etc.]). For those I do something similar to what you suggest: block them.
But they don't just go into the trash, they bounce back to the sender.
-Alex
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