am I just naive about spam

[arson smith]

Damn, if I was me I would feel really dumb.  I am
glad this is just my hotmail account that I did this
too.  I will most likely be moveing this to my own
real mail soon.  Unfortantly though untill then hotmail
sux for filters and such.

Bill Warner


>From: "Robert Leonard" <robertbleonard@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
>To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
>Subject: Re: am I just naive about spam
>Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 15:03:36 PST
>
>Arson,
>
>Make the sign of an "L" with your fore-finger and thumb, now place your 
>hand
>on your forehead.  Seriously...spammers have cd's full of millions of 
>random
>generated email addresses, or they pull addresses from usenet, websites,
>listserv's.  They do broadcast mailings.  They don't know how many 
>addresses
>are valid, so they put the obligatory "unsubscribe" message on the bottom,
>which makes you feel like it's a legit company, and to fulfill the spam
>laws. When you try to unsubscribe, they log this, put it to thier "premium"
>email list, which they then sell at a higher rate, because you've validated
>your email address.
>
>Don't feel too bad, it's a pain in the #$@, there are programs that will
>allow you to filter out specific hosts, or to search your email and route
>spam to the bit bucket.
>
>"We have you surrounded, put your hands up, and step away from that
>unsubscribe button, and no one will get hurt!"
>
>
>
>
>>
>>Not so much linux related but still I felt I
>>needed to vent somewhere any you guys should
>>understand where I am comeing from.
>>
>>I was getting an occasional spam email like
>>maybe once a week when I decided that I should
>>go ahead and fill out the stuff to be removed.
>>as soon as I did that I don't know if they
>>decided wow I have a real address here.  now
>>I get 3-10 spam messages from porn-home bussnes-
>>loan-everything else crap.  I never understood
>>why people complained so much until now.  I
>>don't know if it is from the place I said to
>>unsubscribe me or if they just sold my email
>>to everyone else in the world??? arg!!
>>
>>Bill Warner
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