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Re: XOOM downside
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lugnet.publish
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Thu, 12 Nov 1998 20:49:55 GMT
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Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote:
> Larry Pieniazek <lpien@ctp.IWANTNOSPAM.com> wrote:
> > Some of us have XOOM sites. Is anyone else that does getting the volume
> > of spam I do? It seems every day I get an offer from them to sell me
> > something. And every day I dutifully follow the instructions to get off
> > that list, but each of the lists has a slightly different email address
> > so it seems I just keep doing it and doing it and doing it. Sigh.
>
> Probably part of your problem is that you follow the remove instructions. A
> lot of spammers take a 'remove' message as a confirmation that their spam
> was actually read by a human, thereby making you a good target for more.
Yeah, but you'd kinda like to think that a business providing a
service would act a little more reputably than some scumbag trying to
sell bulk e-mail software.
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| (...) Probably part of your problem is that you follow the remove instructions. A lot of spammers take a 'remove' message as a confirmation that their spam was actually read by a human, thereby making you a good target for more. (26 years ago, 12-Nov-98, to lugnet.publish)
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