Yes it is endlessly frustrating. Anti spam legislation did NOTHING!
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John Hermanson www.zuiko.com
mail: omtech@xxxxxxxxx
Camtech, Olympus Sales & Service since 1977
21 South Lane, Huntington NY 11743-4714
631-424-2121 Turnaround 5-7 weeks
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Brokaw" <jbrokaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 6:08 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Re: Beware: Another scam Paypal message
> I agree John, and now I do that. I found a program that allows me to
delete
> from the POP server before the download... saving me the download time as
> well as rendering my email address a 'black hole' for the spammers. But
they
> are getting some responses or they wouldn't be doing it. I saw a newspaper
> article recently that indicated that a response rate of 0.00001% would be
> satisfactory e.g. 1-2 in a million spams funds it all. So its probably
> hopeless, but -I- won't be that one or two.
> --
>
> Jim Brokaw
> OM-'s of all sorts, and no OM-oney...
>
> on 3/1/04 5:26 AM, John Hermanson at omtech@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > When you download spam (and don't open it) the sender knows that atleast
> > email address is working. Even using Mailwasher (which deletes them
from
> > the server without downloading and sends a bounce message ((as if my
email
> > address is bad)), spam percentage remains around 30%.
> > ----------------------------------------------------
> > John Hermanson www.zuiko.com
> > mail: omtech@xxxxxxxxx
> > Camtech, Olympus Sales & Service since 1977
> > 21 South Lane, Huntington NY 11743-4714
> > 631-424-2121 Turnaround 5-7 weeks
> > ----------------------------------------------------
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Wayne Harridge" <wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 2:56 AM
> > Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Re: Beware: Another scam Paypal message
> >
> >>> Seems to me the real long-term solution to spam is to not
> >>> ever respond. If it were a total waste of time, eventually
> >>> the spammers would get tired or burnt out on sending 100
> >>> million messages and getting -no- takers on their bogus
> >>> offers and scummy deals.
> >>
> >> Very bloody long term solution ! How many SPAMmers are there ? You
> >> think they care if 99.99% don't respond, hasn't worked for me over the
> >> last 5 years, SPAM increasing all the time and I never respond to SPAM
> >> messages.
> >>
> >> ...Wayne
> >>
>
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