From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun May 9 12:30: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.davidv.net (davidv.net [206.66.4.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18D93157E6 for ; Sun, 9 May 1999 12:30:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@davidv.net) Received: from localhost (david@localhost) by ns1.davidv.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA02264; Sun, 9 May 1999 14:29:58 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 14:29:58 -0500 (CDT) From: David Vondrasek To: "G. Adam Stanislav" Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Religious Propoganda. In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990509142337.00958100@mail.bfm.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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