by Guest » Mon Jan 10, 2005 8:50 am
I say destroy them by any means necessary. If you can figure a way to detect the script in real time, delete the account right then and there, and blacklist the forwarding address.
A clever thing to do would be to 'issue a warning' at first, while secretly recording the activities of the miscreant [within limits of your storage]. As the scriptor tests methods to evade your security, you can use him to find unknown bugs in your safety mechanisms - then you can delete him.
I have a confession to make.
I use many disposables, one for each person or company that I have contacted on the Internet - 67 at last count. Through these spamgourmet has forwarded approximately 400 legitimate emails since I first started using spamgourmet in September of 2003.
In addition, the few disposables that HAVE fallen into spammers' hands have eaten approximately 28,000 spams (adding up all the numbers in the 'deleted' column); I estimate this as a total spam load of about 70 per day (actually a little less than the 100 per day to my actual email address before spamgourmet).
This has worked out as an absolutely superb system. I have been able to track exactly who traded which of my disposables to whom, found an email harvesting program in a relative's computer, caught a 'legitimate' company violating an opt-out request, etc.
There are even a few disposables which were never used by the intended (civilian) contact, and were NOT recorded, traded, or otherwise likely to receive spam. These could be safely deleted, if your system permitted it.
I would expect other spamgourmet users operate the same way. Are WE contributing to your problem?