Re: Strange E-Mail WAS: Re: Has Anyone Heard of This?

I also wouldn't suspect anyone from this list to send other members or other
people in general spam mails or viruses, but I asked to be 100% sure.

Well, my theory is that some damn spam bot found the List and stored all our
email adresses. That could happen because the adresses are all visible for
anyone on the messages main page (how Yahoo! handles email adresses in their
mailing lists when showing a a page is much better: e.g. post@becke...
instead of writing the full adress). Of course, the messages are afterwards
sold to some stupid idiot who would do anything for money (spam costs economy
millions of $/€ each year, don't forget, so they actually shoot themselves in
the foot!).

I've also wondered why I get tons of spam daily (ca. 100 mails!) without
giving my email adress when it's not absolutely necessary. I left my email
adress only at very few places. So my theory is that there are evil mail
services that save your email address everytime you send an email to someone
having an account on their server and after that selling the gathered
adresses. You cannot do anything against that. I couldn't explain it
otherwise.

Even forbidding spam by law won't cut the spam rate back, because the spam
mails I get usually are from America or somewhere else, in every case mostly
from outside of Europe. So only if spam is forbidden in *every* country of
this world, the cances grow. But even then there are possibilities left to
send spam mails: through services which allow you to send anonymous emails.
Thus, I've even received spam mails whose sender said it would have been me
who sended that crap!

What is also annoying about spam that seemingly whosoever collecting email
adresses is looking for your interests as well. So between all those other
(spam) emails I've also seen some where there were unrelated terms of which
some were Linguistic ones. Well, this may be coincidence, but you never know.

Carsten

... being at work (due to job experience) and writing this during the lunch
break on a Macintosh (yay!!)