On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 00:50, T. Ribbrock wrote: > On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 07:21:02PM -0700, Mike Noble wrote: > > Spammers also use html mail and if you send a reply then all > > you have done is let them know they have found a real person > > and you will start getting a bunch more spam. > [...] > > You know, I'm wondering whether that is still that much of a problem > these days. Automated bounces will go to the "From" address - and I > haven't seen spam with a valid-looking "From" in *ages*, i.e. the great > majority of spammers will never get to see the bounce, anyway... > > Cheerio, > > Thomas But then again, you've just given the poor guy that had his domain hijacked another email to delete. This post has been helpful, I set up a folder for mail that has /html in the body. I look down the list of senders and If I don't know them, select all and hit delete. Poof! "empty trash on exit" Tim...
