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Hello Email dependent colleagues,
By the time I got into this business I was pestered by spam but was relieved to find at the bottom of a page an offer to cease the unwanted postings.
Shortly, having failed to achieve success because, as someone informed me, any response received by a spammer was an indication that I was still alive and active and a signal to keep on spamming.
I have tried merely sending a "reply" but was frustrated by the web-master who couldn't reply because of the great multitude of addresses that the website couldn't handle.
Recently, I started receiving Chinese language messages and there seemed to be no way to get it turned off. So I tried the trick of copying the reply address and then bringing up the forwarding address which was blank and awaiting my input which I then pasted in and then sent. Usually, the Web master refused to send for want of a legal address - but apparently I had successfully forwarded the spam somewhere - perhaps back to China. Hereafter I'm going to try this reply-forward trick on Viagra, girly-girly, Insurance etc etc.
Let's all do it and perhaps the PF faithful membership can do something about unwanted stuff. Jim Osborn
By the time I got into this business I was pestered by spam but was relieved to find at the bottom of a page an offer to cease the unwanted postings.
Shortly, having failed to achieve success because, as someone informed me, any response received by a spammer was an indication that I was still alive and active and a signal to keep on spamming.
I have tried merely sending a "reply" but was frustrated by the web-master who couldn't reply because of the great multitude of addresses that the website couldn't handle.
Recently, I started receiving Chinese language messages and there seemed to be no way to get it turned off. So I tried the trick of copying the reply address and then bringing up the forwarding address which was blank and awaiting my input which I then pasted in and then sent. Usually, the Web master refused to send for want of a legal address - but apparently I had successfully forwarded the spam somewhere - perhaps back to China. Hereafter I'm going to try this reply-forward trick on Viagra, girly-girly, Insurance etc etc.
Let's all do it and perhaps the PF faithful membership can do something about unwanted stuff. Jim Osborn