Re: Does it work?

Petzl wrote:
> "Gareth" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
> news:[email protected]...
>> 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 

Have you tried spampal already, it is free and it essentially offers the 
same functionality as MW.