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Rob Doucette wrote:
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> In lugnet.general, Dan Mattia writes:
> > They're not clickable. That means the spammer would have to type it in.
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> Bots harvest e-mail address from posts, mailto: is not required.
> I
> > try to warn people and I get arrogant people to post.
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> Posting a bunch of e-mail addresses wasn't necessary... generally speaking
> its bad form. Not sure what part of my response you found arrogant.
Not to mention that this whole thread doesn't belong in lugnet.general.
Plus, there really isn't any good purpose in spreading e-mails warning
about such viruses. I've been getting several copies a day of one or
another of the "Microsoft security updates" and such. I just ignore
them.
There was an article in our paper a few weeks ago about an ex-spammer.
From what I read in the article, a charge of a penny an e-mail sent
would have killed his profitability (0.1 penny might have even done it).
Such a charge wouldn't kill legitimate commercial e-mail (it's far
cheaper than the cost of sending a real mail).
FUT: lugnet.admin.general
Frank
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