On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 22:18:56 -0500 (EST), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: <snip> > Sam, > This was all discussed and tested at length several weeks > or even several months ago. You would not need to wonder > or speculate if you would simply have tried it yourself. > Once you try it yourself, you will not soon forget. So, > please try it for yourself, and see what happens. Log in to > your Unix shell account, and reply to this email, but > instead of simply hitting Reply, and leaving the address as > [EMAIL PROTECTED], instead, lengthen the address such that > it will be arachne-list @ arachne.cz (without the spaces). > Since there are spambots that crawl all web pages looking > for e-mail addresses, and this list is published on the web, > the Nigerian scammers are most likely getting the > arachne-list @ arachne.cz address from the web. Go ahead > and try it. Reply to arachne-list @ arachne.cz (omitting > the spaces) using any e-mail account you wish, and see what > happens. You will not soon forget what happens, so you will > no longer have to speculate about Nigerian generals' > reputed sons, or whether they have "special privileges," or > whether using the word Nigerian somehow attracts Nigerian > scammer/spammer traffic or whether the IP address has any > relevance at all. No, I won't do that, Steve. In your very recent post on this same subject you already described what would happen. This list would receive one copy of of the reply and I would receive bounces for weeks because "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" has so many invalid email addresses. Now I recall the discussion involving someone who tried to unsubscribe from this mailing list by sending an email to the aforementioned email address. Thanks for reminding me of it. He typed just the word "unsubscribe" in the body of the message and sent it. The result was that this list got one copy of the message and his inbox got flooded with bounces. I do not need to try and see for myself what would happen. The same thing would happen to me as would happen to anybody else that does it. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser: http://browser.arachne.cz/
