[ale] OT new spam approach

[Matthew Brown]

Easy there, big feller!

The point of computers is to make life easier on folks out there who
want to use computers, but don't want to have to deal with all the
minutia involved.  It is the job of the designers, programmers, and
system engineers to make computers easy.  IMHO, we have yet to succeed
at that, especially if we're designing such flawed systems as you've
described.

Best regards,
Matthew Brown, President
CorData, Inc.
O: (770) 795-0089
F: (404) 806-4855
E: matthew.brown at cordata.net


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From: greg at turnstep.com [mailto:greg at turnstep.com] 
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 9:28 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] OT new spam approach



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> In the last two days I've received two different spam emails that 
> requested receipts.  How many foolish folks will click ok???

There are plenty of email programs out there that will happily 
send a receipt without requiring any user interaction at all. 
So it probably nets the spammer some email confirmations 
automatically. Email receipts have always been a dumb idea.
Anyone running a mail client stupid enough to send a ping back 
to a spammer deservers all the extra spam that will happen 
as a result.

Greg Sabino Mullane greg at turnstep.com
PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200210291029

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