[SpamCop-List] Re: Out of office messages

[Kenneth Brody]

"André Hendriks" wrote:
[...]
> Second: why should you become blacklisted for sending a SMALL number of
> e-mails to a spamtrap? Is not the bulk property of spam one of the things
> that defines spam? 90% of the spam we receive is filtered out before the
> autoresponder, and if more than five people get the same mail the likelihood
> of it being filtered out is even bigger. So changes that an autoresponder
> message is send more than a few times to the same address are not very high.

(I hope this is accurate.)

Spamtraps exist nowhere, except in places that automated spamware will
see, and on spammer lists.  The only way to know that a spamtrap address
exists is to find it hidden in web pages and the like.  They are hidden
in such a way that looking at the page will not show it, and you can
only see it by looking at the page source.  Only automated software will
think that it's a "real" e-mail address.

So, the only way to mail to a spamtrap is:

    Use spamware to grab it from its hidden location.
or
    Get it from another spammer.
or
    Auto-reply to a forged "from" address of that spamtrap.

Spamtraps would receive _zero_ e-mail if it weren't for spammers, and the
only way to have a spamtrap address is to be a spammer.  Technically, a
single e-mail to a spamtrap address could be a trigger for listing, but
it is allowed just in case someone is attempting to subscribe it to a
confirmed opt-in list, which will legitimately send a single confirmation
message to that address.

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