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by **peter.watkinson** » Fri, 16 Aug 2002 04:19:41

Hi folks,

I receive so much spam in one of my inboxes it's unbeleivable. I had
what could be a really dumb idea.

I reply to spammers with other spammers spam ;-) Is this a stupid
idea?

cheers,

Peter Watkinson

remove <nospam> to reply :-)

by **Christopher Brown** » Fri, 16 Aug 2002 05:43:36

Quote:> Hi folks,

> I receive so much spam in one of my inboxes it's unbeleivable. I had
> what could be a really dumb idea.

> I reply to spammers with other spammers spam ;-) Is this a stupid
> idea?

Yes, it's a stupid idea. It is typical for spammers' email addresses
to be forged or otherwise invalid, so that it is entirely unlikely
that you will actually hit them up with your response.
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by **M?ns Rullg?** » Fri, 16 Aug 2002 06:56:34

> > I receive so much spam in one of my inboxes it's unbeleivable. I had
> > what could be a really dumb idea.

> > I reply to spammers with other spammers spam ;-) Is this a stupid
> > idea?

> Yes, it's a stupid idea. It is typical for spammers' email addresses
> to be forged or otherwise invalid, so that it is entirely unlikely
> that you will actually hit them up with your response.

I've also heard that some spammers will take a reply as a verification
that the address is valid. This includes the unsubscribe feature.

--
M?ns Rullg?rd

by **Christopher Brown** » Fri, 16 Aug 2002 09:03:15

>> > I receive so much spam in one of my inboxes it's unbeleivable. I had
>> > what could be a really dumb idea.

>> > I reply to spammers with other spammers spam ;-) Is this a stupid
>> > idea?

>> Yes, it's a stupid idea. It is typical for spammers' email addresses
>> to be forged or otherwise invalid, so that it is entirely unlikely
>> that you will actually hit them up with your response.

> I've also heard that some spammers will take a reply as a
> verification that the address is valid. This includes the
> unsubscribe feature.

Yes, that's possible.

And has the downright counterproductive result that it amounts to
telling them "Yes, I got the spam; this is a _real_ address that you
can sell onwards to other people!"
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