On 9/6/07, Mike Cardwell <exim-users@???> wrote:
>
> It's not spam if you sign up for it.
>
It is if you sign up with a company that already spams. That's why the
sketchier the company, the better. The best are those companies that
aggregate advertising; all they really do is sell your address to
spammers.
> If you do that, make sure you are absolutely certain that the terms and
> conditions that you sign up to, prevent them from emailing you for *any*
> reason, and prevent them from selling on your details to others.
>
That's the point, if it's a spam trap, you want them to sell it to
others. That's how you get on the spammers' lists. Of course you
wouldn't give them any *real* details.
> In the past I've received spam purely for posting to this list, it might
> be a good idea to stick your spam trap address in the headers of all of
> your outgoing emails, or even in the signature. Making it very clear
> that no one should email it of course.
>
> Mike
>
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Regards,
Darton
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