| > Because it would be rude not to respond, I'd like to send the spammer back an email and invite them to my very special registration form. Don't do that. No, really, don't. Okay, you didn't listen and did it anyway; please, at least don't automate it or semi-automate it where you're just doing it with one click. > Spammer burned a total of 80 seconds in Password Purgatory So you think, based on the belief that when you reply to the spam, it goes back to the spammer. That may not be the case; when you engage spam, you are possibly generating "backscatter"; a person having nothing to do with the spammer may receive the e-mail. Spam messages are not always relying on someone replying to them to hook in the victim. Sometimes there is no hook at all, or sometimes the hook is in the HTML links, and not in replying. (They additionally hope that if you reply, the person you are replying to will also get the spam e-mail, since it is quoted, and that person will click on the links.) |