Is Spamming too easy??

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Under Bill s. 1618 TITLE III passed by the 105th Congress this letter
cannot be considered spam as long as the sender includes contact
information and removal instructions. This is a one-time e-mail transmissiom.
No removal is necessary.

Yes this came with a porn web link ;)

― brg30 (brg30), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 13:26 (twenty-three years ago)

And I got the same message three times!!!!

― brg30 (brg30), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 13:27 (twenty-three years ago)

1) It's my understanding that the U.S. Congress has not passed any such legislation. A bill roughly along those lines is somewhere in the legislative labyrinth, but that does not authorize unsolicited commercial e-mail.

2) Do not respond to spammers' removal instructions--apparently many of them simply take note that the address is alive, and sell their lists of confirmed-alive addresses to other spammers.

3) Yes, spamming is too easy.

For more information, go to http://spam.abuse.net/.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 13:36 (twenty-three years ago)

has anyone ever bought anything because of spam? has anyone every followed up any spam?

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 13:41 (twenty-three years ago)

all the money i've made on MAKE MILLIONS ON THE NET schemes i put into the bank accounts I keep for the use of the distressed children of deposed African dictators

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 13:53 (twenty-three years ago)

j.lu
>2) Do not respond to spammers' removal instructions--apparently many
> of them simply take note that the address is alive, and sell their
> lists of confirmed-alive addresses to other spammers.

wise words. i unsubscribed from a spam that came from hispeedmailer.com and in the following couple of months received spam from:

offers@123offers.com
offers@apsoffers.com
offers@deals123.com
offers@deals123.net
offers@hi-speedoffers.net
offers@hispeedoffers.net
offers@hsmdeals.com
offers@hsmdeals.net
offers@hsmoffers.com
offers@hsmoffers.net
offers@hsmspecials.com
offers@kooldeals.net
offers@luckydeals.net
offers@luckyoffers.net
offers@offers123.com
offers@offers123.net
offers@offerscentral.net
offers@offertoday.com
offers@offertoday.net
offers@quickydeals.com
offers@quickydeals.net
offers@reallycooldeals.com
offers@reallycooldeals.net
offers@reallycooloffers.com
offers@speeddeals.com
offers@speeddeals.net
offers@wowdeals.net
offers@yesdeals.net

all of which were aliases for hispeedmailer.com. (taken from my yahoo.com blocked addresses list)

some of them are sneakier though and include single pixel images in the email and can use this to detect if the email has been opened.

and those e-cards your friends send you, same thing.

andy

― koogs, Wednesday, 28 August 2002 15:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Incidentally, Graham, or anyone else in the know - is there any particular reason why email addresses aren't hidden from spammers any more? I thought that was one of the better features of the new board system.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 16:05 (twenty-three years ago)

They're hidden if you're not logged in -- ergo, a spammer would have to go to the trouble to create an account and log on before gathering addresses. E-mail harvesting programs won't bother to do that on their own, I'm guessing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 16:08 (twenty-three years ago)

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