Had a hard time to find your message since you didn't trim anything. I am an old fogey, with email addresses before the internet, (ARPANET, DECNET) yes, there was such a thing. We had netiquette, trim out everything that doesn't pertain to the message. Use text only, to keep those darn attachments away. (.dat files) Adhered to the netiquette, had many a friend and acquaintance, never had to say anything bad. Look it up and you will be a better contributor, no offense intended. As a guess, you are probably my son's age posting from an iPhone. Look up netiquette, know what the ratio of the response is supposed to be compared to the article posted.
Walter Liberty 28, Fajardo,, PR -----Original Message----- From: Kris Coward Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 11:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] A Hey (OH OH! Norm Hacked!) On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 05:44:32PM -0400, Ben Okopnik wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 05:32:58PM -0400, Sam Densler wrote: > > Ben, > > It makes sense when there is a legitimate product offered for sale in > > the spam email but what about the emails that just have a link with no > > text, or a bunch of nonsense, or I have even seen some with no link at > > all. Just seems like the intent is to piss people off but what is the > > financial gain? > > Oh - yeah, I've seen those as well. I _think_ - not sure, but I suspect > - that they're accidental mailings, kinda like "Dear Rich Bastard". > > http://www.snopes.com/business/consumer/bastard.asp > > The thing to remember here is that what the spammers (the people that do > the actual mailings, not the advertisers) get paid for isn't in the > visible part of the email - it's the effort to structure the headers so > that the email appears legitimate and slips through the filters. Most of > that is going to happen before any content is added (thus the empty > emails), or where they just type in some nonsense so there will be > _some_ kind of an email body. > > Like I said, though, that's just an informed guess. I'd always figured that they were sent out to confuse/poison Bayesian and machine-learning based spam filters. -K -- Kris Coward http://unripe.melon.org/ GPG Fingerprint: 2BF3 957D 310A FEEC 4733 830E 21A4 05C7 1FEB 12B3 _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
