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nancylebovhttp://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/executive_tech/article.php/3581741
tells about Lashback, a company which tests unsubscribe offers to see whether the addresses are sold to spammers.
I hate spammers--they go looking for any useful means of communication they can damage. I admit they may be the only people whose line of work consists of looking for ways to pass Turing tests, but that's only admirable in a world where the computers have won.
Link found at Geekpress. Are any of you guys habitual geekpress readers?
tells about Lashback, a company which tests unsubscribe offers to see whether the addresses are sold to spammers.
I hate spammers--they go looking for any useful means of communication they can damage. I admit they may be the only people whose line of work consists of looking for ways to pass Turing tests, but that's only admirable in a world where the computers have won.
Link found at Geekpress. Are any of you guys habitual geekpress readers?
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Date: 2006-02-03 02:59 pm (UTC)If I subscribed to a series of emails, then they already have my address, so I'm not giving them any new information by unsubscribing.
If I didn't subscribe, then it is spam, and the correct response is to report it to the ISP and (if it's blatantly fraudulent) to spam@uce.gov, to take measures to block mail from that source, and never to give the spammer any confirmation that the mail is going through. It's logically impossible to "unsubscribe" from something you didn't subscribe to, and begging spammers to stop spamming you merely tells them that you're getting their mail.
No esoteric tests are needed to distinguish one from the other, just a reasonable memory.