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Old 09-02-2004, 08:12 AM   #10 (permalink)
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One of the reasons spammers go to such extremes is to harvest good e-mails. They send you something so ridiculous, they hope most people will hit the unsubscribe link.

DO NOT DO THIS!!!!!!!!!!!

You have now provided them with a legitimate e-mail address they can sell to someone else. The trick is they are not trying to sell the product in their pitch. They are fishing for e-mails.

Say they send out 1 million e-mails. Even if 1% respond, thats 10,000 known good e-mails. Not bad for a few minutes worth of work.
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