Bill McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Some possible explanations:Don't get me wrong- I'm not complaining. But I'm just curious why so many of you seem to get so much stuff when I do not. And if I ever start to get more, I'd like to understand why.
1) You're not high profile. While you have submitted your email address for online purchases, you haven't submitted it to the places that spammers like to hunt: public web pages, newsgroups, and popular mailing lists.
2) You don't subscribe to a popular online service. Spammers like to target AOL, AT&T, and MSN addresses. I suppose that spammers think these people are more gullible since they chose an ISP that caters to inexperienced users.
3) Your email address is too complex. Sometimes spammers don't bother harvesting public addresses at all, but instead try to generate their own lists by sending email to popular first-name/last-name combinations. (Examples: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]; or [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) If the message doesn't bounce, the address is valid and gets sold to other spammers.
4) You've never replied to a spam message or clicked a link in the message. Some spammers will indeed honor your "remove" request, but will sell the "remove" list to another spammer who then starts the process all over again. Other spammers embed your email address in the URLs embedded in the message, and track who clicked the links since these email addresses are more valuable than those who ignored the message.
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