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| Subject: | Re: FLASH: remove - Note about spam |
| From: | jmerrill |
| Date: | Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:53:27 GMT |
Unfortunately, one of the surefire ways of getting spam, spam. and more
spam sent to you is to reply "remove". Microsoft, Yahoo!, and AOL all
state that asking people to reply with "remove" is a common technique that
only tells the spammers that the account is active and they can send you
more spam, or sell your account name to other spammers. 90% of the time,
unless the e-mail is from someone like Amazon.com, replying with "remove"
will only have the opposite desired result. I know from personal
experience. Best thing to do is try and trace the account back to the
service provider and forward the e-mail with full headers to them. Often,
however, the spammers "launder" the spam by routing the e-mail through
several bogus accounts from ISPs. By the time you try and track it down,
the account has shut down.
Please don't reply "remove" from this list, as the list doesn't need any
more spam than it already gets. Thanks.
See this from Yahoo! 's mail help:
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/spam/spam-03.html
What not to do when you're spammed
Never respond to unsolicited email/spam. To the individuals
who send spam, one "hit" among thousands of mailings is enough
to justify the practice.
Never respond to the spam e-mail's instructions to reply with
the word "remove." This is a ploy to get you to react to the
e-mail and alerts the sender that a human is at your address,
which greatly increases its value. If you reply, your address
may be placed on more lists resulting in more spam.
Never sign up with sites that promise to remove your name from
spam lists. Although some of these sites may be legitimate,
more often than not, they are address collectors. The
legitimate sites are ignored (or exploited) by the spammers;
the address collection sites are owned by them. In both cases,
your address is recorded and valued more highly because you
have just identified it as read by a human.
Jason Merrill
Multimedia/Courseware Developer @ ELF, Issaquah, WA
425.369.5214
SerengetiUS.com - "Where Law Does Business"
Seattle Macromedia Authorware User's Group
David Reaugh
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November 27-29, 2000, LONDON, National Film Theatre
Produced by United Digital Artists and lynda.com
-Sponsored by Macromedia, Adobe Systems and Apple Computer
-http://www.flashforward2000.com or UK tel. +44 (0870) 751 1526
Register before November 10 and save £200
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November 27-29, 2000, LONDON, National Film Theatre
Produced by United Digital Artists and lynda.com
-Sponsored by Macromedia, Adobe Systems and Apple Computer
-http://www.flashforward2000.com or UK tel. +44 (0870) 751 1526
Register before November 10 and save £200
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