Melinda Shore said in rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

And as a business with few controls, there's a strong
tendency to include old, unused, never-used, etc. addresses.
What's a spammer going to do if he buys a list with a lot of
useless addresses? Complain to the Better Business Bureau?

Which is why bouncing programs like Mailwasher don't work. Once
your address is on a CD along with millions of other addresses,
no one is going to issue an update because some spammers get a
few purported bounces.

--
--Matt. Rocky's a Dog.

Melinda Shore said in rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

And as a business with few controls, there's a strong
tendency to include old, unused, never-used, etc. addresses.
What's a spammer going to do if he buys a list with a lot of
useless addresses? Complain to the Better Business Bureau?

Which is why bouncing programs like Mailwasher don't work. Once
your address is on a CD along with millions of other addresses,
no one is going to issue an update because some spammers get a
few purported bounces.

--
--Matt. Rocky's a Dog.

Melinda Shore said in rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

And as a business with few controls, there's a strong
tendency to include old, unused, never-used, etc. addresses.
What's a spammer going to do if he buys a list with a lot of
useless addresses? Complain to the Better Business Bureau?

Which is why bouncing programs like Mailwasher don't work. Once
your address is on a CD along with millions of other addresses,
no one is going to issue an update because some spammers get a
few purported bounces.

--
--Matt. Rocky's a Dog.