Subject: Re: spammers
Date: Mar 23 11:59:39 1998
From: "Bob Mauritsen" - Bluetooth at csi.com


The spammers would probably just see the huge pile of deleted
e-mails as a
treasure trove of individual e-mail addresses, which they could
mine, use, and
possibly sell. In the end it would probably just encourage them
more -- in the
hope that more people would dump such treasure on them. :-))

Bob Mauritsen
Bluetooth at csi.com


> From: osprey at nwinfo.net
> Date: 3/23/98 7:43:13AM
> To: TWEETERS at u.washington.edu
> Subject: spammers
>
> Today we were treated with another piece of spam. I have an
> idea that might
> at give us all a chuckle as a way of dealing with spammers.
> Is there a way
> to attach all of the e-mails we are going to delete to an
> e-mail that we all
> send to the spammer? Can you imagine this vending machine guy
> receiving
> 15000 deleted e-mails about birds?
>
> If someone knows if this would work please let me know. When
> I go through
> my e-mail, I generally highlight all of the e-mails that I
> have read and all
> of the ones I am not interested in at one time and hit the
> delete key. If I
> could just attach all of them to another e-mail, they could
> all ride to the
> spammer together.
>
> Denny Granstrand
> Yakima,
> WA
>
>
>