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Subject: don't respond to spam

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 12:25:02 09/14/99

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On September 14, 1999 at 14:21:31, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On September 14, 1999 at 13:41:54, Bas Hamstra wrote:
>
>>When you get spam email, you hit the delete button, right? I wonder what would
>>happen if everybody first clicked "reply" before "delete". Wouldn't that be
>>something to promote? :)
>Mine pretty much automatically goes into the garbage can without my even seeing
>it.  There is a built in filter for MSIE that does this.  Probably about 1/3
>gets missed, which I delete by hand.  I think responding would probably just
>waste time and not really cause any problems for the spammers.

Never respond to spam, even if they say that if you want to be taken off their
mailing list to email them. This only proves to them that you exist and they'll
keep spamming you.

When I delete spam I use Shift+Delete because otherwise you'll still have a copy
in you trash folder, I use Netscape so it's probably different with MS.

Pete



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