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Article #693Re: Is LISTME.COM trolling for spammable addresses?
From: Steve Portigal
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 00:00
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amatu@unicorn.us.com utters: > In article <6ht1ee$80u$1@samba.rahul.net>, > Zoli Fekete, keeper of hungarian-faq <c.c.gflfuf@IsXLISTMEX.killspam.us.com> wrote: > > Note that you (instead of the mailder-demon) too can bounce mail either > >manually or via procmail, which may be the best thing to do if you're > >concerned about becoming a veryfied spammee. > I tried bouncing mail from elm to myself at another address, using elm's > bounce function. What I got at the other end was not obviously a > bounce; there was no error message, just the same mail I sent. That's not the meaning of their "bounce" - it's equivalent to redirect in Eudora - it sends the message to a new address, as if the sender was not you, but the original sender. It's not an error bounce, it's a sneaky redirect type feature. Steve -- Steve Portigal GVO INC Steve.Portigal@pobox.com Palo Alto, CA
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 111b8f,ef47319fa1936995 X-Google-Attributes: gid111b8f,public From: Steve Portigal <stevep@rahul.net> Subject: Re: Is LISTME.COM trolling for spammable addresses? Date: 1998/04/26 Message-ID: <6huqtb$hhm$1@samba.rahul.net> X-Deja-AN: 347768753 References: <6hr0cr$amo$1@samba.rahul.net> <6hreqn$dkk$1@samba.rahul.net> <6hsn3q$3cp$1@samba.rahul.net> <6ht1ee$80u$1@samba.rahul.net> <6hu645$do8$1@samba.rahul.net> Organization: GVO INC. NNTP-Posting-User: stevep Newsgroups: a2i.general