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Re: Spam Prevention System?
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In <[email protected]>, on
05/23/97
at 11:27 AM, Alan <[email protected]> said:
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>> In <[email protected]>, on 05/23/97
>> at 02:54 AM, [email protected] (lucifer Anonymous Remailer) said:
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>> >I was wondering if perhaps a way to minimize the hassle with sitting on
>> >one's thumb while waiting for unwanted email to download could be eased
>> >by an email program which retreived only headers, allowed you to delete
>> >the unwanted ones, and then retrieve the wanted ones, deleting the rest.
>> > Is this feasible?
>>
>> Yes it is but will not help much. As seen with the subject lines of the
>> ascii art posted to the list it is quite simple to give a message a
>> subject that would not reveal that it was spam until the entire message
>> was downloaded and opened.
>Misleading spam subject lines are nothing new. (Just got one today, in
>fact entitled "Aren't you the one who...".)
>The idea (in the spammers small little brain) is to make the subject
>something that you would want to open and read. (Why they think I am
>willing to wade through 20+k of marketting drivel is beyond me...) Much
>of these ideas are similar to direct mail marketting campaigns, but
>without the graphical or ethical content.
>The idea behind marketing spam is that people are more willing to buy
>your product if you spit in their face first or attack it to rocks and
>throw it through their windows.
>Now all that needs to happen if for these people to get a connection to
>the clue server and figure out that such actions are not helping them
>any.
>[Clue #1 for Spammers: If you have to hide the source of your message,
>maybe there is something seriously wrong with how you are delivering it.]
>
Well the saddest thing of all is that this type of mass marketing works.
:(
It truly is a sorry commentary of the sheeple of this country. If they
didn't make money off this and increase their sales the spam (and all
other blind mass marketing) would disappear.
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