Bob Mauritsen wrote:
>
> 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
> >
> >
> >
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........You are absolutely right!!!!!!! 'Any' reply of 'any' sorts will
tell them that there is 'a live one' at this end of the line, and this
info. will keep you on their potential customer list. Just 'ignore and
delete'. They don't know if you are there till you reply in some way.
....End of topic.....let's drop it!!!!

Gerald Hamilton
gerald at e-z.net