You obviously do not have a technical background, this message is absurd. First, spammers (And as a hosting company I can vouch for this with real log files) often use programs that send spam to servers without knowing the names of people on that server, that is, without their email addresses, they use programs that use common names, common addresses. I reject a ton of mail that simply cannot be delivered, so this aproach will not work.

Also, your looking at the cost of this problem from the stand point of your email inbox, what about the loss to me, in bandwidth usage that is wasted from huge quantities of messages that I reject because the recipients just done exist?

So I respectfully disagree with you post, this is not an "acceptable" response.

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