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Re: bounced spam



 Mike Gorse wrote: 
> On Mon, 5 May 2008, Nathan Meyers wrote: 
> 
>> Same boat here - started happening a few weeks ago. I added some 
>> .procmailrc filters that capture the vast majority of this voluminous 
>> bounce spam: 
> 
> I thought about trying something like that, but it would catch 
> legitimate bounces, too.  Maybe there's no other way around it and the 
> benefits would outweigh the cost, though. 
It's a sledgehammer approach, but I decided the time spent scanning the 
Bounce mailbox for legitimate bounces outweighed the time lost picking 
the bounces out of my inbox. 

If your experience is anything like mine, you'll go through intense 
spam-bounce periods separated by lengthy lulls. I have some hope it will 
burn out on its own... ask me in a year if I was right :-). 

Nathan 

> 
> Thanks, 
> -Mike G- 
> 


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