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by rubicat on Wed Feb 04, 2004 at 10:12:51 AM PDT

I have read a lot in anti-SPAM discussion groups about the fact that if someone uses a spammer's opt-out or list removal mechanism, that this shows them that your address is a "live address." While I agree that one shouldn't use these removal procedures, it is because they usually are meaningless and don't actually remove you from anything. I don't think that spammers really care if the addresses in their list are good (live) or not. The modus operandi of most spammers is quantity not quality. It cost them next to nothing to send out millions of e-mails. They don't care whether some of them go through or not. A case in point: According to my mail server logs, an address that I deleted almost 6 years ago due to excessive spam, still gets about 40-60 inbound messages a day (which are bounced during the SMTP transaction). So the spammers haven't cared that this is not a "live" address, but has in fact been quite dead for almost 6 years.

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