On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 17:04:52 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 14:02:41 -0500 (EST), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: >>> Yes, it is consistent with the anti-spam viewpoint I have advocated in >>> the past. My point is that I think they should start taking down the >>> worst offenders first before they start picking on the little people. >>> Everyone knows who the big time offenders are and nobody is doing >>> anything about them. >> Really? Who do YOU think the worst offenders are? > Did you ever wonder why everybody who signs up for a hotmail or a > yahoo account gets dumped on with tons of spam? Could it be that > hotmail and yahoo sell email addresses to spammers? People who use > many of the lesser-known free email services only seldomly get > spammed. We may of course most reasonably suspect that yahoo sells > email addresses to spammers because they actively promote and they > host lots of porn sites. At least they used to be into doing that at > one time in the recent past. I don't know if they are still doing it. > Anyway, you know how almost all porn sites promote themselves. By > spam. Many spammmers use yahoo and hotmail email addresses. Some of > the spams actually originate from yahoo and hotmail servers. Did you ever wonder why there aren't very many spams *received* by people who have FREE email accounts ??? IMO, The spammers don't bother to send their adversiments to people who don't have the money to buy the products being advertised in those spams. Think about it for a seccond..... If a person can't afford to pay for email service. Then they most certainly can't afford to buy any of the products being sold by the spammers. In addition, Did you ever wonder why the spammers signup for FREE accounts at Yahoo, Hotmail etc, etc, and then use them for sending spam ??? Simple.... it keeps the overhead down. And since no real proof of identity is needed for getting such an email account. It's quite easy to open up a new one if the one your are currently using gets terminated. -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/
