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July 25, 2007 |
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Will we ever can Spam ? or
... How much spam could a spam can can
if a spam can could can spam .... A lot of the spam and
junk email you get today has a link in
it that supposedly you can click on to get your name removed from their spam
list. Of course they don’t say that they have spammed you –
usually they insult your intelligence by saying that you had opted-in to
receive their emails somehow, although of course you never did. So
it’s a big temptation to click on that link which will supposedly
remove your name – but should you do that? One of the biggest antispam organizations in the world is the Spamhaus Project – http://www.spamhaus.org and if you read
the material on their site you can protect yourself both from spammers and from internet fraud
schemes. The Spamhaus has this to
say about "Address Remove" lists: Address Remove Lists
are operated by spammers. From the moment they claim you "opted-in"
all spammers operate using lies and deceit, therefore by nature all spammers
are liars and conmen. For-a-fee Address Remove Lists are
operated by conmen. Any system that wants money in exchange for 'removing'
your address from spammers' lists, is a scam, you should report it to your
State Attorney General's office. These
include National Do Not Email.com UnsubscribeNow.org Remove.org GlobalRemoval.com
unsubscribenet.com and the National Anti Spam Registry. Most spammers send out
up to 80 million spams every day, to address lists
scraped from all over the net, obtained from other spammers, copied from spam
CDROMs, etc. They
don't know which addresses are real, which are working or not, until you send
them back a "remove". Then they know your address works. And that's
not all they know: By sending back a 'remove' you are confirming that your ISP doesn't use spam Block Lists or spam filters, you
are confirming that you actually read spams and
that you follow the spammer's instructions such as "click here to be
removed"...... You're the perfect candidate for more spam. No legitimate marketing firm will ever
operate a Remove List or use a Remove List, because no legitimate marketing
firm sends Unsolicited Bulk Email in the first place. There are well over 600 million email
users on the Internet who detest spam. A 'remove list' database that could
hold that volume of addresses would take each spammer days to 'wash' their
lists against it - and at the end each spammer's list would be almost empty.
Can you imagine spammers doing this? No spammer would ever use a
"global remove list" because all spammers believe that people who
remove themselves from other spammers lists would not have removed themselves
from theirs, since all spammers believe the junk they send is different from
the junk other spammers send. So If you don't want
your email address to end up on yet more spammers' lists ,
don't confirm to the spammer that your
address is real and working. NEVER remove yourself from any list you didn't ask
to be put on in the first place And the next time
you’re tempted to click on that “remove
me” link in a spam, remember to grin and bear it, unless of course
... you really like the taste of spam ... For Raw Bytes This is Frank Delaney (C) 2007 MTA Micro
Technology Associates http://www.mtamicro.com/kpbx.html (509)624-7230 |
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