Mike Leber <mleber@he.net> writes: > Using "ask to be taken off their list" as an indicator indicates > a naive understanding of how serious spam servers (for lack of a > better term) operate. > The primary reason that a well written spam includes a way "to > get off the list" are it gives recipients an action to take, > thus reducing complaints. > You can ask to be removed from the scam artist's lists all you > want, but you will never be removed from the spam server's > master list. I can confirm this. The reply-to address of a good deal of the spam out there is <someusername>@domain.com, the example address, so the "remove-request" just gets a reply from the example address mailbot and is then trashed. We're currently seeing about 20mb/day of these misaddressed remove-requests. -Bill