the local RCMP? prey tell what? ML ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Hanson" <printerman@xxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 6:00 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Mail for the ones that want to give you millions of dollar (Africa), I emailed it to the local RCMP. they are always interested in this. DH Holmes wrote: >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 >> >> >-- ><Please delete this line and everything below.> > >To unsub or change your email settings: >//www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk > >To access our Archives: >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ >//www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ > > > > > -- Roy Hanson Technical Support for Eco-Toner Systems, Inc. c/o Mail Boxes Etc. 509 Commissioners Road West London, ONtario N6J 1Y5 Office/Production: 3392 Wonderland Road South, Bldg. #8 London, Ontario N6L 1A8 email: printerman@xxxxxx www.ecotonersystems.com 519 6526233 -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.9/116 - Release Date: 9/30/2005 -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/