From: mark@unicorn.com
Date: Wed Feb 03 1999 - 10:12:50 MST
Spike Jones [spike66@ibm.net] wrote:
>does anyone know: when you get a spam with a remove button,
>should you reply remove or just play dead and not reply? spike
Ignore it. 90% of the time it's a fake email address, and most of the rest
of the time it's just a way to verify that your email address actually
works before they sell it to other spammers.
Personally, running my own domain I'm amazed by the amount of spam I bounce
for non-existent email addresses, and the number of mailing lists which
have non-existent unicorn.com addresses subscribed. This annoys me a lot
more than the spam I'm sent, particularly when it ends up in my postmaster
mailbox for no good reason.
Mark
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