RE: [Nolug] *Incredible* surge in spam

Is there a way to track unknown addresses and do a reverse check to see if
its a valid address?
If so, can this be checked before a message is delivered?

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net]On
Behalf Of Ron Johnson
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 11:18 AM
To: NOLUG ML
Subject: Re: [Nolug] *Incredible* surge in spam

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 04:28, Joey Kelly wrote:
> Thou spake:
> <snip>
> >
> >My only 2 addresses are @yahoo.com & @cox.net. The @yahoo.com
> >address has always seemed to get ~50% spams.
>
> Why don't you email the spammers from your yahoo account to complain about
> the increase in spam on your cox account. Maybe things'll even out a bit.

They're all bogus addresses.

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Jefferson, LA USA
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