L.D. is right...!
An artical in eWEEK, 9 Oct 00, p.62, by Dennis Callaghan says
the same thing she does...the "REMOVE" address is just a collection
box for validated email addresses..
An organization called Responsible Electronic Communications
Alliance (aka RECA) is proposing a set of practices and enforcement
standards to (supposedly) deal with the problem of spammers.
However, their standards will enshrine this very tactic, making
the spam recipient op-out "reply" to the spam as the way to go.
Other groups, E-mail Standards Workgroup, and Coalition Against
Unsolicited Commercial Email, point out that this is the standard
way for spammers to validate addresses on their spam-shots...
Other recent articles in my mail/email indicate that US spammers
are hiring foreign spammers to make their spam-shots for them, then
getting only the validated email addys from them...this shields the
US spammer from even being ID'ed on the initial spam-shot, he only
has to (sort of) reveal himself when he gets down to the real offer,
of course, to now validated addresses..
.....gregy
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