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Re: Is LISTME.COM trolling for spammable addresses?

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From: Steve Portigal
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
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Steve Portigal                                                  GVO INC
Steve.Portigal@pobox.com                                  Palo Alto, CA	
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From: Steve Portigal <stevep@rahul.net>
Subject: Re: Is LISTME.COM trolling for spammable addresses?
Date: 1998/04/26
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