In my experience, the best course of action is simply to filter it out.
Responses do indeed verify that your address is valid; I once made the
mistake of doing just that, and it took about a week before I was getting
10x the amount of spam I had been previously.
The best proactive method of dealing with it is to report the forward the
message, with all the headers, to either spam_at_originatingdomain.com or
abuse_at_originatingdomain.com. I have to admit that I'm usually too lazy to
do this; the spam filters on the company's mail server do a good enough
job that I might get 2-3 spam messages per day at the most (as compared to
10-15 on my old earthlink account).
Cheers,
Aaron
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Allison J Parent wrote:
>
> Thanks everyone.
>
> I'm getting spammed and it's apparently from the opt-in thing that I'd
> never opt-into!
>
> Any solid suggestion how to shut this down. I firmly believe the "remove"
> in these is fake or worse address validation. I wonder if the whole
> remove this is bogus.
>
> Allison
>
> For example...
> ***************************************************************************
> You received this copy as a subscriber to our opt-in email list.
> If you no longer wish to receive solicitations simply unsubscribe by
> clicking here: http://www.postmasternetwork.net/remove
> <a href="http://www.postmasternetwork.net/remove">Unsubscribe</a>
> ............................................................................
>
> That's right.
>
> This week more.com is offering a 6-pack of Ultra Slim Fast for $1 and
> our ever-popular $1 mystery item.
>
> ****************************************************************************
>
Received on Fri Feb 11 2000 - 21:02:53 GMT