[Mimedefang] Great open letter about anti-virus, emails, boun ces, etc.

[Stephen Smoogen]

On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 12:06, Ben Kamen wrote:
> I would like to say this about boucing spam's. I hate the concept that I
> should accept a SPAM from a sender (assuming it's a spammer) as if the
> SPAM succeeded.  Someone suggested I NOT bounce them and I replied, "What
> and let them think you got the email all happy about it? Wasted bandwidth,
> wasted drive space... waste of your time right-clicking/deleting."
> 
> If I'm going to waste the bandwidth looking at someone's spam, it's going
> to sit on THEIR drive, not mine.
> 

9 times out of 10 it wont sit on their hard-drive. It will sit in some
innocent 3rd parties hard-drive by the time it has gotten to you. And
they will try to keep delivering it to you :).

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