RE: offensive emails

[Christopher J. Mackie]

Oh, please don't do that.  Most of these messages are *intended* to get you
to "unsubscribe."  Of course, you were never subscribed in the first
place--it's only a ploy.  When you unsubscribe, the junk mailer knows that
your email address (which was generated haphazardly) is 'live', and you're
flooded with additional email.

I've seen really nasty versions of this ploy--stuff advertising things that
would outrage anyone.  If you see something like that, it's almost certainly
not what it claims to be (mass mailing disgusting ads?  What a waste of
money).  Instead, it's some junk mailer trolling for addresses to add to the
next mailing.

Block the sender so you don't get anything more from that address, delete
the message, and forget about it.

--Chris Mackie

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden
[mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of Florian Schedler
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 6:52 PM
To: list-swarm-support
Subject: Re: smut


Hi,

I followed the link in your your mail. The page it links to contains only a
form where you can enter your email address in order to unsubscribe. There
is no obscene content nor any other content of any kind on that page.

I hope this helps

Florian.


On 23.04.2002 23:06 Uhr, "Sharon Gifford" <address@hidden>
wrote:

> Martin,
> I received an obscene email through address@hidden  I can't
> forward it forward it. The message was from address@hidden
> They suggested that I visit their Web site
> http://virginbest.com/cgi/WWCnotify.pl to remove my name.  I do not want
to
> visit the site.
>
> Suggestions?
>


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