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From: Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net>
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Subject: Re: Spam (thread drift)
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 21:23:20 +0100
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On 08/09/14 21:01, Marc Haber wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> I am basically trying to bounce as much spam upstream  as possible so
>> that the marketing companies will take my name off their lists.
>
> That assumes that they bother to clean non-existent addresses from
> their lists.
>
> They don't.

If you really want to mess with these guys, you need to "tarpit" their 
connection - that essentially locks up a slot at their end and stops 
that thread/process bothering someone else for a while.