Virus
Chris Jones
jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Thu Aug 23 15:18:00 UTC 2007
>
> Reporting junk mail isn't always advisable, either, unless you really
> know what you're doing. Those who don't know can end up making the
> report to the spammer, making a report to a host that doesn't care,
> making a report to a host that forwards your complaint onto the spammer,
> making a report that cause trouble for the people who's addresses were
> forged in the spam, and so on. Various anti-spam systems have their own
> ways of collecting data to identify spam that manage quite fine without
> the trying-to-be-helpful amateur.
I second everything you say.
In fact, forwarding the spam to this list in the first place, is pretty
much to akin to just sending the spam yourself, to 1000's of new people
on this list. Not too clever :(
Chris
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