JYoung6180@aol.com wrote: > If the spam is non-subscriber emails I agree with Charani---discard and > don't let the spammer know the address they spammed is valid. It just leads > to MORE spam. > > But if you have a compromised subscriber sending the spam and you have them > on moderated status rejecting the spam in pending requests from them can > help to alert the person that they have been hacked. When I've checked the addresses to which it's been sent, strangely it includes the address of the hacked account as well. That in itself would alert the victim as to what's happened. Whether the hackers realise what they are doing or not is another matter of course. Even when it's a subscribed member, I still discard. Then again, I've had hackers still in control of an account who've responded to mail sent to it. I have an address I use to advise subscribers with compromised accounts. It's not used for any other purpose. -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Ashcott, Shapwick, Greinton and Clutton, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk

On 3/10/2013 3:31 PM, Charani wrote: [snip] > Even when it's a subscribed member, I still discard. Then again, I've > had hackers still in control of an account who've responded to mail > sent to it. I have an address I use to advise subscribers with > compromised accounts. It's not used for any other purpose. Charani: Using a "throwaway" account for such things is probably unnecessary paranoia. But if so, it is a pretty intelligent form of the disorder. [grin] Darrell

Darrell A. Martin wrote: > Using a "throwaway" account for such things is probably unnecessary > paranoia. But if so, it is a pretty intelligent form of the disorder. [grin] I have several reasons for using "throwaway" accounts, paranoia isn't one of them <G> It's mainly so that if I change my ISP for any reason, I can still be contacted because I'm not using an ISP address. And, yes, I have changed my ISP several times. -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Ashcott, Shapwick, Greinton and Clutton, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk