At 12:40 PM 2/21/01 -0600, annie@geekbabe.com wrote:
>I'm sure some are just faking the "Here's the info you requested" subject
>to get people to read it. (Trust me, I've never requested any information
>about Viagra - LOL!) 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.
>
>Anybody else noticed this?
My assumption is less charitable towards the business sending the spam:
I figured they just wrote the message intentionally to falsely claim
that I had opted in, in an attempt to make me think it wasn't unsolicited
spam. They do everything, from pretending to be a reply to a message I sent,
to citing nonexistent laws proclaiming them non-spam. Why wouldn't they
just lie about opt-in?
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