Things Not To Do

Seems like every spam you receive these days has that somewhere in it, doesn't it ? Spammers claim that if you just do this for them, then they won't send you any more spam. Most spam has been forged in some way so that it is very difficult to determine the origin, and impossible to just hit "reply"- the address you are replying to doesn't exist !  Even if the "remove" address is valid, many spammers don't remove you! It is not in their interest to do so, far easier to simply auto delete any responses. In addition, some junk emailers simply treat the remove request as verification that your email address is valid and continue to spam it.

Just hit delete is something that quite a few spammers will tell you -- after all, it's just an email message, right? Not worth getting worked up over. What they don't tell you is that in order to deliver that message to you, other people paid for it. Your time, money and energy, not to mention huge amounts of bandwidth -- the excess costs of which are (or will be) passed on to you in the form of higher access fees -- from your Internet Service Provider, and the rest of the Internet. Why do we have to pay to receive ads we never asked for?

Many people who receive UCE want to strike back at the senders in some fashion- this urge is magnified when the
spam is particularly offensive or obnoxious. Simply put attacking senders of Spam is not a good idea. It's Illegal. You can get into a lot of trouble for attacking another computer or network  There's no reason to stoop to the level of spammers. Sending mail bombs, SYN floods, or other attacks against senders of UCE just makes you look childish.
 
 
 

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