At 11:16 AM -0400 6/18/2011, Bill Connelly wrote:
On Jun 18, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Dan wrote:
At 10:49 AM -0400 6/18/2011, Bill Connelly wrote:
But I keep getting these things, and its been happening for a long
time ... they end up in my g3-g5 mailbox.
Perhaps someone's just using my e-mail address I have for the
g3-g5 list to SPAM me. Maybe I should just change that? wondering
how they got that in the first place ... I thought we were
protected there.
Please send me a single sample, including the full headers. I'll
take a look.
I'll wait for the next one to arrive,
Ok.
as all the ones I got so far, I Forwarded to
[email protected]
eh. Better to just train the spam filters in your local email
client. Companies like Verizon have such poor email service, that
their filters are all but useless anyway.
, and when I'm in a bad mood, Bounce'd them too.
oops. Think about that. Two types of spam: 1) Spam relayed thru a
zombie, using someone else's from address. 2) Spam used to probe to
see if there's a live user out there.
Type 1... By "bouncing", all you're doing is screwing over some
innocent person whoze address was put in the From field by a spammer.
Just what that poor guy needs -- more spam.
Type 2... You're telling the spammer that you EXIST! YAHOOOO! That
just popped you from from his giant unverified address list to the
Next Level, the one that brings in more $ when the spammer sells the
list to other spammers! IOW, you are HELPING the spammer earn
*cough* his living AND you are EXPLICITLY ENCOURAGING other spammers
to spam you!
The same thing happens when you simply view a spam, with "html
enabled" or "images enabled". Those 1x1 pixel graphic files that you
don't see... That's reaching out and touching the spammer's web site
to tell him YOU EXIST.
- Dan.
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