[SpamCop-List] Re: Victim of Spam-Trap addresses...

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"anon" <vxpy7do02 at sneakemail.com> wrote in message 
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> "Marc W. Mengel" <mengel at fnal.gov> wrote in message 
> news:e0eh4i$2j8$1 at news.spamcop.net...
>> Michael Wise wrote:
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>>> You proceed by operating your mail lists in a responsible 
>>> manner by making sure they are confirmed opt-in.
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>> And how does that help, exactly?  All you know is that when 
>> the person subscribed, maybe 15, 20 years ago, the email 
>> address was valid.
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> In many cases (like snailmail) people move on and forget to 
> close or forward from he old address so it is now a dead one - 
> mail goes to it but is not read and not bounced
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And thus, the need for good mail list management.  If you just 
blindly keep sending mails to bouncing addresses without 
confirming whether that address is valid and wanting the mails, 
which IS what happens for a fairly long period of time, then you 
have a big hole in your list management that needs fixing.
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>> And what if they've setup an email forward since then, and 
>> mistyped it
>> so that it now goes to one of the spamcop trap addresses?
Very, very difficult to do, especially more than once.
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> My feeling is that a good spamtrap includes numbers and letters 
> that are NOT likely  to be "mistyped" so spamtraps are just 
> that - traps.

And even more than that, they are kept SECRET.  Spamtraps 
practically never receive a legit email, and have never sent an 
email.  I'd be mighty surprised it a typo could hit a trap.
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> A SpamCop user and forum reader,
> Not Admin
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>> Marc
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