On Wed 21 Feb, annie@geekbabe.com wrote:
> What's been bothering me lately is I've been getting more and more spam
> to this address (the one that's in the FAQ and on the website) that implies
> I've done something to opt-in to their list.
Rule #1: Spammers lie.
> But the way some of them look, I think slimeballs are
> selling spam lists, like those collected from web pages and newsgroups,
> to unsuspecting businesses as lists which people have voluntarily
> subscribed to.
Oh, I've no doubt that gullible people might fall for such a scam and
purchase a spam list. However there are also seasoned spammers who
want you to *think* they've fallen for the scam in the hope you'd be
more lenient with them.
-- S L Painting <postmaster@zedtoo.demon.co.uk>************************************************************* To unsubscribe send a message to majordomo@faqs.org as
unsubscribe faq-maintainers fill-in-your-email-address-here *************************************************************
[
FAQ Archive |
Search FAQ Mail Archive |
Authors |
Usenet References
]
[
1993 |
1994 |
1995 |
1996 |
1997 |
1998 |
1999 |
2000
]
© Copyright The Internet FAQ Consortium, 1997-2000
All rights reserved