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Article #689Re: Is LISTME.COM trolling for spammable addresses?
From: Zoli Fekete, keeper of hungarian...
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 00:00
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In article <6hsn3q$3cp$1@samba.rahul.net>, <amatu@unicorn.us.com> wrote: >Yeah, I'm screwed either way. Replying verifies me as deliverable, and >the lack of a bounce does the same thing. Although the lack of a bounce >is less certain -- the sender won't know if the mail got silently >filtered and dropped at the other end. But in all likelihood they don't care - what they are most likely building is a bounce-free spam list. Incidentally, I have seen a few of these flying around, although I don't remember whether they hit my own accounts or only read about them in NANA. >I guess this is truly a case of "just delete it." That's what I'll do. Note that you (instead of the mailder-demon) too can bounce mail either manually or via procmail, which may be the best thing to do if you're concerned about becoming a veryfied spammee. -- Zoli Fekete <http://www.eternal.net/Hungarian-FAQ_keeper> * BEWARE: I will never buy anything from companies associated with * inappropriate online advertising (unsolicited commercial email, * excessive multiposting etc.), and discourage others from doing so too!
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 111b8f,ef47319fa1936995 X-Google-Attributes: gid111b8f,public From: "Zoli Fekete, keeper of hungarian-faq" <c.c.gflfuf@IsXLISTMEX.killspam.us.com> Subject: Re: Is LISTME.COM trolling for spammable addresses? Date: 1998/04/25 Message-ID: <6ht1ee$80u$1@samba.rahul.net> X-Deja-AN: 347596007 References: <6hr0cr$amo$1@samba.rahul.net> <6hr8e0$c1d$1@samba.rahul.net> <6hreqn$dkk$1@samba.rahul.net> <6hsn3q$3cp$1@samba.rahul.net> Organization: a2i network X-Comment: Encoded From: line allows replies that preserve original subject NNTP-Posting-User: fekete Newsgroups: a2i.general