On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 22:14:20 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Spammers just harvest email addresses at random.
> I disagree and our Nigerian friends are an example of why. Every Nigerian > span I have ever received came via the a-list ... obviously harvested for > email addresses. Spam target lists are just that - targets. > I predict that our Nigerian friends will soon abandon the a-list, once > they discover that none of us ever respond. Of course, if they manage to > sell their address list to another dummy then we'll get another round of > messages (from yet another of the general's many relatives). > The critical factor for getting spam is the company that you keep. If you > go where spammers are lurking, they'll harvest your address. And, if you > ever reply, it will be many moons before they stop writing. > Bob Dohse The problem with that is that there are weirdo-kooks who are out lurking around in the very best neighborhoods. You don't know they are out there until something dreadful happens. I don't have to worry about weirdo kooks lurking around in my neighborhood because the weirdo-kooks are afraid to go sneaking around in a neighborhood where there are several 400 pound black bears lurking. In my neighborhood the bears are our friends for that reason. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser: http://browser.arachne.cz/
