On Tue, 27 May 2003 17:24:09 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: > And if you should even once respond to a spam (sometimes just going > to a suggested website is all it takes) then you will get on a list > of "email responders". Lists of "email responders" are a hot item > in the spam trade.
How can they find out your email address just by your going to their advertised web site and the only thing you do there is to just take a looksee? The only way I can figure how they could do that is if they named a different web site for each article of spam sent and the named web site corresponds to the spam article sent to your email address only. Do spammers do things like that? It would seem to me that there isn't enough money in the spamming business for spammers to consider it worthwhile to go to so much extra effort and expense. Some legitimate and reputable businesses that you have asked to hear from via email do things like that, but in their case it is not a dirty trick. It is just one of their ways of monitoring the sucess of a perfectly legitimate marketing activity. They already know your email address anyway because you have voluntarily opted in. They will let you voluntarily opt out just as easily as you opted in. Because they respect your right to opt out, and because they hope you will not exercise your right to do so, they aren't going to send you any ads having any obnoxious and offensive content. They will send you only some ads about things which you have voluntarily told them that you are interested in. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser: http://browser.arachne.cz/
