On 7 Jul 2011, at 19:08, Jeff Lasman wrote:
> On Thursday, July 07, 2011 04:30:27 am Ian Eiloart wrote:
>
>> No, you should not bounce spam because the spammer won't know about it, but
>> SMTP time rejections will be different. A bonnet host won't keep hammering
>> away at a server that consistently refuses its mail.
>
> I'm not sure of that. We used to run an ISP. Back in the dialup days. We
> still have the domain name and we keep email on it live, but with no active
> email accounts. Strictly as an academic study to see if the email will ever
> stop.
Of course, if you were accepting the messages, you might see more of them.
> We still get tens of thousands of hits every day, almost all from spammers.
> They're all refused, no local address. But they keep coming. Year to year
> percent of change so far is less than 1%.
>
> I suppose I could create my own blocklists using the data.
>
> Jeff
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