A Possible Solution To The Spam Problem?

[stevesh]

Interesting idea, anyway.

 

http://anuragjain.blogspot.com/2004/12/de-...-have-been.html

[AlanV]

Yeah, interesting, but I'm with the people who say it won't work.

It is a lot cheaper to send out mass mail and have a few bounce/not be delivered (especially since the address is usually fake anyway) than to have to weed out invalid addresses from a list.

 

Of course (as some people stated), this depends on the system being used. If it's a system for compiling a list of email addresses (for sale), they must be valid addresses, so the system would check for bounced and undeliverables.

 

The majority of spam though is sent through random servers by programs that get addresses from crawling the web.

 

I would tend to think the reduction in spam was due to the upgrades, not due to the shutdown.

 

But just follow one commenter's advice: turn SpamAssassin on and set it to 3.5 (or higher). Cpanel offers that functionality built in. I know that I've never gotten spam on my primary accounts, despite having my email plastered all over the web (and SpamAssassin catches about 100 emails a week of spam, all redirected to a junkmailbox which I can clean out at my leisure).