-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Mail

Please show me a SPAM that wants you to REPLY to the spam.  You don't REALLY 
think that a spammer would make it that easy do you?  Spammers and viruses 
do not want you to reply to the message... they want you to click on a link 
IN the message.

99.99999999999999% of the time a bounced SPAM will not return to the actual 
sender.

Please note, that a lot of what you probably call SPAM is not, by 
definition, spam.  That is because you asked to receive it as part of the 
terms for registering at a website or subscribing to a service.  E-mail that 
comes to you because asked for it, may indeed get bounced back to the actual 
sender.

Don

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "DH Holmes" <hayvan2@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 12:30 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Mail


> Don....how can one be certain beyond doubt?  If people want to annoy me
> offering great rewards, or telling me I have won a lottery, I feel it is
> better to annoy them back. What point is there in responding that you
> are willing to participate in their 'scam', if the email address is a
> spoof? In other words, for what purpose do people want to falsify an
> email address except to spread a virus or some other mischief?
>
> I must admit I am a bit lost here!!LOL
>
> I'm guessing that as more people get 'annoyed' by unwanted postings,
> surely the sooner the message will get home that that they spammers
> unwanted -- hopefully!
>
> Cheers
>
> Rick H
>
>
>  Don wrote: Unless you know for certain beyond ANY doubt that the
> bounce message will
>> go to the jerk actually responsible for sending it and not some innocent
>> victim that had his address spoofed by a spammer or a virus, then 
>> bouncing
>> will do no good whatsoever and only irritate the person that actually
>> receives it.
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