Re: Mail.app "Bounce" Option

It sends a bounce message to the same mail server that sent you the SPAM
message. The "mail server" for the large majority of SPAM messages is
actually some poor schmuck's virus-ridden or otherwise compromised PC
that happens to be hooked up to the net. It's been compromised by
malware, and spammers are using it to send thousands of SPAM messages to
people all day every day. There's no mail server "admin" manning these
servers - the mail server is just a background program spammers
installed on the computer unbeknownst to the owner of the computer.
Bouncing the message back to that machine will have no effect, or
certainly not the *intended* effect. All you are doing is increasing
email traffic.

I do take this advice seriously, and as a result would probably not
launch a personal "bounce all spam" effort.

But, the other side of the coin: If a massive "bounce all spam"
initiative were initiated, it's unwanted effects might just eventually
lead to some realistic and effective efforts to actually curb the spam
epidemic -- something that doesn't seem to be happening now.

[As my personal candidate for a starting point, how about a massive
class action "defective product" suit against Microsoft for all the
long-standing and massive Windows security defects that make all these
compromised bot-networked PCs so readily possible? Can't understand
how this hasn't happened long ago.]
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