Comments | djesterrh: Fight Spam

djesterrh

Fight Spam

Jan 11, 2006 13:45

"The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it."
-Alan SaportaI went to bed last night a little later that I use to, I was at a writing meeting with my friend Dave (hoping to pitch a TV show). So I got home and I quickly scurried of to bed, just a I was about to reach the blissfulness of complete sleep my blackberry goes off. I was now ( Read more... )

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kainazzo January 12 2006, 03:19:44 UTC

Never ever EVER go to the website of someone sending unsolicited email and send them messages saying you got it. It verifies your email address is real and proves to advertisers that their methods create traffic.

I Call.... mcamino January 12 2006, 12:56:14 UTC

..Bullshit. I run a Internet Service provider and i can tell you from my own first hand(Read: I know WTF i am talking about) experience, that spam is a real pain in the ass but Clicking that remove me link works 95% of the time. That old-wives tail about "it confirms you id blah blah blah" is old and not true. The spammers have 1 of 2 goals in mind. 1) STEAL YOUR IDENTIY/MONEY FROM YOUR "ORDER" 2) Sell you shit you dont want. Now with #1 it suck to be you if you are stupid enough order something from them (read: full frontal labotomy) but with #2 they are not stupid. unlike telemarketers spam is not profitable. Spammers usally will HONOR your request for a simular reason telemarkets will. THERE IS A COST TO SPAMMING. Now before you go off on a tanget let me explain. If you have a spam relay and you have lets say 1 hour to send 1 million messages would you delibertly send messages to people who you know will not buy your shit or take them out of the list and use their "spot in que" to send to someone new/stupid enough. In the end it ( ... )

Re: I Call.... jaborla January 12 2006, 14:43:51 UTC

When you unsubscribe to a list, the company that is sending you the list has to remove you from the list. But there is no rule/law/anything that keeps them from then putting your now-confirmed e-mail addy on more lists that they own or are selling.

Re: I Call.... djesterrh January 12 2006, 20:47:28 UTC

That is the problem that, they stop sending you their e-mail and you end up on somone elses list. I once had an eperiment here at work to show the effects of spam. I signed up with 1 site (that I knew would spam me), for 1 month I constantly clicked the unsubscribe me button, and after a short period of time (1 month) I went from 1 company spaming me to over 100 now craming my e-mail box once a day. Why company A honors my request, the sell to company "B", "C" and so on. There are more companies(some fly by night) than I can unsubscribe to.

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