I'm assuming that this is written tongue in cheek (there is a smiley for
that, isn't there?).
Replying to spam, if the address is good, merely confirms a good address,
which the spammer can either spam in other "internet advertising campaigns",
or resell as a verified good address. Providing a remove address gives the
appearance of legitimacy, like a traveling salesman offering a ninety-day
money back guarantee. For those spammers who have not already moved to
spam-friendly ISPs (see www.spamhaus.org), it allows them to claim, gee,
Mrs. Cleaver, I really did try to let that rare and occasional dissatisfied
customer unsubscribe, but some evil fascist from the anti-spam lunatic
fringe must have gotten it shut down.
I'm still hoping for ISP-based solutions. Problem is, the big ISPs sublet
bandwidth to little ISPs, and spam counts as billable traffic. So there is a
profit motive. MSN uses BrightMail, but that does not appear to be catching
half the spam, in my experience and in my opinion. I really do not believe
that it would be that hard to do. But, like anonymous call rejection on
phones, only a few might take advantage of it.
I noticed that one of our spam is ????????www.ab86.net from
[log in to unmask], another charset="GB2312" email, where, on my system,
they appear to have something to say, period. Now, I am also getting more
than a dozen email every day, subject "test", message body "test". Today,
they are from Julia. They have been from test and from richard. I can't put
my finger on what seems familiar in the latter (spam on the 3000-L) from the
former, but am wondering if I am the only one getting that spam?
Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Baier [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 4:54 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Suggestion
>
>
> The other day I got a spam-message that mentioned a "UNSUBSCRIBE" and
> therefore was not spam. This unsubscribe-address of course
> did not work.
> Wish all that energy for spam would go to a usefull subject.
>
> Michael
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