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« on: June 12, 2003, 23:14:05 »
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I get many spam mails and most of them have a little, tiny link at the bottom saying "if you to unsubscribe send mail with topic -remove- at emailaddress" or something like that.

So... I'm thinking is this a window to little by little remove my self from all those spam mailing lists or is it just a cheap trick to prove to the spam sender that my e-mail address does exist and is active?
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« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2003, 23:27:50 »
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It's a really lame trick. Never hit 'unsubscribe' on a spam. In fact, most spam doesn't even have a real unsubscribe link, or it just has one to a nonsensical URL like http://blah or something...

Stupid spammers!
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« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2003, 06:21:54 »
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Yip. $p@mm3rz are B4$7@RDZ!!
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« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2003, 14:01:32 »
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Worse than that, actually.  If there is a legitimate link, it'll be used to verify that it's a 'live' address, so they can sell it to other spamers.
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« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2003, 00:39:24 »
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Come on guys, cool it with the leetspeak already  Rolling Eyes  I don't want this place to look so inviting to script kiddies.
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