Spamming (Good or Bad?)

Jim Gillogly jim at ACM.ORG
Wed Aug 21 14:26:23 PDT 1996



Asgaard <asgaard at Cor.sos.sll.se> writes:
>In the meantime, before these technological fixes are easily implemented,
>what is the proper way to handle unwanted commercial mail?

>What if the spam says: 'Do only reply to this if you want
>further contact with us' etc?

Then you fix up the "Reply-to:" line to point back to them, helping them
debug their anti-loop procedures.  For extra credit use port 25 to create
the mail so that they can't easily ignore "Reply-to" and use the "From:"
line for their next salvo.

	Jim Gillogly
	Trewesday, 29 Wedmath S.R. 1996, 17:39






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