Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 14:29:58 -0500 (CDT) From: David Vondrasek <david@davidv.net> To: "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Religious Propoganda. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9905091427220.2231-100000@ns1.davidv.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990509142337.00958100@mail.bfm.org>
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On Sun, 9 May 1999, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > At 11:32 09-05-1999 -0700, Jadaris Ro'Kedri wrote: > >Bad SPAM! Bad, bad SPAM! *grins* > > > >I myself just replied to every e-mail in the original with "Remove" in the > >subject and "you turd" in the message. *laughs* > > Ouch! You may have opened yourself up to more spam: You gave them your > email address while they did not have it before. That is what the "remove" > instructions are for, to confirm the validity of emails in their database, > and to collect new emails when the message was posted through a list. > > All antispam instructions I have ever seen say you should never reply to > the message for precisely those reasons. > > Adam You are correct. They use this as a way to varify VALID emails and they sell those to other lists collectors. Then your email is added to the nice CD's you see for in spam as a VARIFIED email address. *sigh* I work for an abuse dept of an ISP and I see it all day. NEVER reply to a spam. Send it to your abuse dept, or if you know how to trace a header, to the postmaster and/or abuse@ address of the originating ISP. Most accounts get cancelled. But the spammers expect this. -- David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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