A Dumb Question

On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 10:46:10 -0700, Dan Marotta wrote:

I just saw a boat load of spam in my junk folder. Most of it was
Facebook (mortgage refinance, Viagra, walk-in bath tubs, etc.). I guess
the Facebookers hope to get rich spamming everyone else in the world.

On 11/20/2016 10:37 AM, Bruce Hoult wrote:
On Sunday, November 20, 2016 at 8:22:31 PM UTC+3, Dan Marotta wrote:
Everyone who wants an email reply to a thread couches his address as
follows: My initials plus my last name (commercial "at" sign) and a
period with that google thingy type email extension.

Is in only because I use Thunderbird as my news feed reader, because I
can see your email in the "From" block of the message header. I can
also simply click the "Reply" button vs. "Followup" if I want to reply
directly.

Or is it that because web crawlers harvesting email addresses only
scan the bodies of the messages and not the headers? Or am I one of
the few who has a spam blocker which blocks any email not from an
allowed sender?
I've always figured I've been on every spam list of email addresses in
the world since 1990, so I just ignore the problem.

There's very little email spam these days, actually. The spammers have
moved on to richer and more naive pastures.


Spam comes from every social network, email provider, mailing list etc.
that is dumb enough to allow e-mail to be sent without running it through
a spam trap.


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