Evan Platt wrote:
Evan Platt said:
I don't have a link for you, but tell your boss to imagine if someone
decided to dictionary attack every ISP they could find, using not only
dictionary words, but every combination of letters up to 9 letters, i.e.
aaaaaaaaa, aaaaaaaab, aaaaaaaac, etc up to zzzzzzzzz for every ISP they
can find. And tell your boss that they intend to use HIS address as the
reply-to address for the spam. Now ask him if he still thinks it's a good
idea for ISP's to 'bounce' spam to this unintended victim - him.
Let me follow up to myself (please allow myself to introduce... myself.) I posted a message to a yahoo group last week. A few minutes later, I get a e-mail that my message has been marked as Spam by some software, and if I wish to confirm my identity, I must click on a link to that companies web site (tracking numbers and all that in the URL). And, of course, this will add me to the persons allowed list so I won't have to do it again. Needless to say, I will NOT do that. This company could then sell its lists of CONFIRMED addresses for a goldmine.
I then posted to the list, asked if anyone else had received this message, and a number of people did, and for the most part, no one clicked on the link. So now there's some 1d10t wondering why he's not getting any mail. I know this isn't your boss'es intention, but it sounds like he wants anything marked as spam deleted? Not a good idea, IMHO. (Baby, bathwater).
Evan
First he wanted that. I did it but actually kept em all. So then his partner didn't get an urgent email so it was turned back to the users to decide. I get a different kneejerk each week. What fun dealing with an 80 yo ex military man. This am it was "Lets spambomb every isp that sends spam and maybe *they* will do something about it. And screw the rest of the world too. America owns the internet. Fsck Em, they would all die without the american economy, etc....."
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