At 2002-10-10 07:13 -0800, Ingraham, Andrew wrote: >> ???? this came in right now, but didn�t tell which ListManager ???? >> Re: your unhold request >> > unhold >> As requested, your subscription to 1 mailing lists has >> been reset to normal. >> >> anyone can tell me what this is about ? > >It sounds like spam. Someone is trying to get you to reply to their mail, thus >confirming that your address works and that there's a human being (you) who reads it >... a good target for spam or commercial e-mail. Or worse.
Paranoia is a joy forever. It's like having your private life-like thriller movie being constantly projected upon the inside of your skull. ;-) Andy, you (like many others) seem to very much overrate the intelligence in the spamming industry: Why worry much about spamming the wrong people? When you have a response of 1 in 1000, you don't spam a 1000 people, but you spam a million people and you still have 1000 idiots responding and buying your stuff. Spammers do not keep track of what their spammings do and magically extract privacy data from it. They buy new addresses for every spam. There is no use in sending the same spam to the same people over and over again. What you should try is to get on the don't-want-to be-spammed lists. The more responsible spam address providers keep such lists and subtract those addresses from the list of all new harvested listings, because it's not good marketing to upset people that are already upset. They also used to substract all the .edu and .gov addresses, because students and teachers don't have money and may revolt and .gov addresses, because they want to keep the bureaucrats and politicians ignorant. >Or maybe it's legit. Read on. ;-) >If your mail program allows it, check the header to see where it came from. Here is the one I got: >Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-XS4ALL-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Received: from mxzilla1.xs4all.nl (mxzilla1.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.54]) > by maildrop8.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g99LtcA45942 > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 23:55:38 +0200 (CEST) > (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) >X-XS4ALL-DNSBL-Checked: mxzilla1.xs4all.nl checked 216.34.139.203 against DNS >blacklists >X-XS4ALL-Pad: empty >Received: from mailc (mail.maxim-ic.com [216.34.139.203]) > by mxzilla1.xs4all.nl (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g99LtWs0021757 > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 23:55:37 +0200 (CEST) >Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-ListManager-type: command-notify >From: "ListManager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "ListManager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: your unhold request >Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 15:01:05 -0700 > >Re: your unhold request >> unhold > >As requested, your subscription to 1 mailing lists has >been reset to normal. So it seems to be coming from the real Maxim company and therefore it's a case of a clueless ICT manager again, as I expected. Greetings, Jaap PS. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is an email address that is being redirected to my own ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) email address. -- Author: Jaap van Ganswijk INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB CHIPDIR-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
