Re: Does it work?

"Gareth" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> Many thanks for all your helpful responses.
> My email address is probably quite vulnerable to dictionary attack as some 
> of you mentioned (gazza is a popular nickname in the UK!) but I know for 
> sure someone had it before me as I have had emails from companies to which 
> the previous owner had subscribed (eBay and the like).
> I have other address which don't suffer so much spam and just created this 
> new one as a spare. Hence I will probably drop it as it is a chore to 
> report all this spam considering I don't really do anything else with the 
> address.
> I had heard of some people having success in significantly reducing their 
> spam with spamcop so thought I'd try it to see if I could clean up this 
> address.
> I've also heard of a program called Mailwasher which apparently generates 
> a bounce in response to spam in an attempt to convince the spammers the 
> address in invalid. I am a bit sceptical of this since a) I doubt whether 
> the spammers care about bounces and b) I worry if such bounces could be 
> detected as being false and thus validate the address.
> Any comments on this would be appreciated.
> Thanks
>
> Gareth

Mail washer is a good option (not as good as SpamCop email)
just turn the "bounce annoyance" off