Spammer's opt-out schemes have nothing to do with curbing spam. It's just
an obfuscation, and a way of getting the clueless to support the spammer's
contention that we should just tolerate it. Once unsolicted bulk e-mail
is established as acceptable net-behavior there will be an explosion of it
as many more will do it. Even if some of them collect "remove requests"
many of them won't, and you'll have less argument against spamming.
Remember, the spammer is in this because they believe they can get
something for nothing. You can't expect them to regulate themselves. The
whole opt-out scam is just a smoke screen.
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