David Groover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thanks for the Command-Shift-H tip. I did not know that one. Here is the >header. There is a bit too much info for me to make much sense out of. I >see that a person's email address is listed under the return when I view >he whole header. How does it work that I don't see a return address, and >when I hit reply, it shows a blank "to" field. But, the revealed header >shows an address to reply to.
I would have to look it up to confirm it, but I'm pretty sure that if a legitimate email application or SMTP server decides to line-wrap a header to the next line, it must put some white space (a tab or space character) at the start of the line so that anyone downstream who decides to parse the header won't get confused. (In other words, only "From:", "To:", "Received:", etc are supposed to start at the first character of any header line.) Since the "offers5.netpaloffers.com" violated this rule when it line-wrapped its "Received:" header, it probably prevented Emailer from correctly parsing the "From:" and "To:" headers, which appear on the lines below it. >Would replying to that address and >complaining and asking to unsubscribe be useful? Is that address likely a >good one? Is my logic correct? No. The only thing spammers enjoy more than spamming your email address is selling your email address to other spammers. A legitimate email address is worth more than an illegitimate address or cancelled account. A legitimate email address of someone who actually bothers to read the spam is worth more than a legitimate email address of someone who ignores it or filters it to a spam folder unread. So, if you reply to this message, you're only increasing the cash value of your email address and making the spammer a little richer. > Also some of these things, like netpal, say they are only here because I >gave them permission from a site I visited. They lie. They're betting that you won't remember every possible web site you visited and don't understand that legitimate web sites would never send you unsolicited email unless you specifically asked to receive it. >Theoretically if it's a >legitimate site, asking to be taken off the list would actually work. If they were a legitimate site, they wouldn't be sending you spam. And trust me, it's spam -- I've seen that subject line in my own spam folder. >But >I did that a couple weeks back with one site and I swear the very next >day I got two additional spammers on to my mailbox. I'm not surprised. NEVER, ever reply directly to a spammer. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
