Re: OT/advice: spam (wasRe: Klingon speaker needed in Portland, Oregon)

My ideal response to all the Penis Enlargement ads, would be to successfully
corner said spammer, and with the appropriate tools sourced from some willing
and helpful farming relatives of mine, ...

That way I could:
A: relive life in the ancient times when eunuchs were men without, not a form
of computer operating system;
B: see how people actually adapt to such pain;
C: get a little bit of aggro off my chest;
D: and maybe help someone to an understanding that people in general don't
like being harrassed and hounded via their communications links.

Wesley Parish

P.S.  Of course, I've never seen them use the rubber rings, only the hot
irons.  And that was only for taking tails off, not the other side of it.

On Thursday 22 May 2003 10:06 am, you wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 04:22:18PM -0400, Sally Caves wrote:
> > Actually, Stone, sending any response to spammers has no effect either,
> > and is actually deleterious.  Some of them don't have your name (because
> > I'm "scaves" to a lot of spammers,
>
> Incidentally, that's one way of telling spam from real email; spam mail
> will often be addressed to "scaves" instead of "Sally", or contain
> "scaves" in the subject line, etc.. I get a lot of spam that say "hsteoh,
> slow down your aging!", etc.. I should put a rule in my filter to discard
> all such mail immediately, since obviously whoever sent it has no idea who
> I am.
>
> > I get advertisements for VIAGRA, Penis enlargement ads, and women
> > looking to please a willing gentleman.  Responding gives them your name,
> > your gender, and they can target you more specifically.  They are
> > indifferent to flames.
>
> The golden rule of spamming: NEVER, EVER respond to them, especially not
> from the address the spam was sent to. It only confirms to spammers that
> your email address is read by a live person. Spammers routinely engage in
> tactics such as using various means of mass-generating potentially valid
> email addresses, and sending spam to each address. Obviously, most will
> bounce, and some may get lost on the 'net somewhere. But the 0.001% who
> are naive enough to respond will end up on the Gold Confirmed Working List
> of Email Addresses, which is highly valued by spammers, and is often
> burned on CDs and sold to other spammers in the black market.
>
> > And the request to "remove me from your mailing list" actually does the
> > same thing.  So you're making the problem worse.
>
> That is one of the worst ways of responding to spam. It tells them that
> your address is not only live, but that you have actually read the spam,
> and are gullible enough to take the time to respond. They *love* such
> dedicated, promising potential customers. Do not be fooled.
>
>
> T
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