-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Mail
- From: "Don" <dsw32952@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 01:04:04 -0400
Please go back and re-read what I wrote. I did not say that what you call
spam is not spam. I said a lot of what you probably call spam is not spam.
There is a BIG difference in the meanings of those words.
A lot of the junk email many people get is NOT spam, simply because they
ASKED for it or opted into it by way of registering for a website or
service. Because they ASKED for it, it is NOT SPAM. By definition SPAM is
UNSOLICITED.
IF this is not the case in your situation, then I take great relief in my
use of the word PROBABLY.
Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "DH Holmes" <hayvan2@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 6:16 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Mail
> Don, With respect, I must take issue with you when you say that what I
> call spam is not so. My dictionary defines spam as unwanted email or
> canned meat, predominantly pork.
>
> The burdenful mail that I call spam mainly consists of requests to
> assist in the transfer of, usually, millions of dollars or pounds, with
> 5-10% or more coming to me for helping. Another ploy is to tell me my
> email address has won a lottery etc, etc.
>
> I have not asked for this, and I believe it is the marketing of email
> addresses that has initiated this influx of mail - anything from 10 to
> 30 postings a week. More in fact, because my ISP filters a lot of them
> out.
>
> This is all spam, most people, including me, believe. And these do
> provide email addresses for one to respond to. These are the ones I want
> to eliminate - nothing to do with virii, viagra, or anything else. Money
> and/or lottery wins. They are a PITA, and if it annoys the perpetrator
> to bounce them, good job. I still have my old email address aliased to
> the new, but, any time now that will change, and all those postings will
> be bounced anyway, won't they.
>
> May I, again with respect, suggest you review your definition of'spam'
> Don. Yours is frightfully and unrealistically narrow, by being
> restricted to viruses breeders.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rick H
>
>
> Don wrote:
>> 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
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