I'm not quite sure that I understand this?

Isn't the location of the server serving and logging web-bugs just as tracable as the originating email address?

Isn't the ISP hosting the webbugs just as likely to be inundated with abuse complaints as the email provider?

What's the point in creating a throw-away email address to avoid tracability if your going to embed an equally traceable webbug url or "Please remove me from your list" url?

It seems that people still believe that spammers aren't only selfish {expletive}'s, but they are also stupid. People append _NOSPAM to addresses, or write them as "soandso AT thingame DOT net". Is there anyone here that couldn't write the regex to find and correct that?

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: OT: Spam protection by BrowserUk
in thread OT: Spam protection by t0mas

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