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Subject:Re: Let's play ... spam the spammers! From:Andre Lodwig <lodwig -at- AEA -dot- RUHR-UNIX-BOCHUM -dot- DE> Date:Wed, 6 Aug 1997 09:18:49 +0200
Robert Hartman wrote:
>
> If everyone saves the return addresses of the spam they receive in a
> day, and posts them to one or two newsgroups, we can see how long it
> takes for the spambots to flood each other into oblivion!
The problem is, that most of the adresses in spam-headers don't
work. I switched to using a modified sender adress (netscape
allows this) to reduce spam and it seems to work.
Andre Lodwig
for non-commercial replys: remove the x in my adress.
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