Klarinet Archive - Posting 000367.txt from 2004/02

From: Andy Raibeck <klari_1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Need Computer Help - Please!
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:41:02 -0500

Actually I am very surprised to hear of your experience, and would think you
rather lucky.

Usually those little "unsubscribe" links serve only to let the spammer know
that your address is "live". Thus it makes your address more valuable to
spammers who trade or sell email addresses to other spammers. If anything, I
would think clicking on the unsubscribe link would generate *more* spam, not
less. In general, I would not recommend clicking on the spam's unsubscribe
link.

The exception would be legitimate businesses with whom you already have a
relationship (in which case, it's not really spam as such).

Regards,

Andy

--- Martim Guerra-Silva <martimguerrasilva@-----.com> wrote:
> Have you tried finding those tiny text links at the bottom of (almost) every
> spam mail? I don't know if it is by law or just common practice, but almost
> all spam mail senders include an "unsubscribe" function. I've had periods
> when I receive spam mail, and sometimes clicking that little unsubscribe
> link has reduced my spam mail by 5-10 mails a day. I'm not saying
> it -always- works.. I don't know if it does, but I've been spam free for a
> year now...
> Maybe I should add that most people don't notice it, as it's usually written
> in as small a text as possible, and most people don't even bother to read
> their spam, so it's no wonder.

Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want.
http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Klarinet is a service of Woodwind.Org, Inc. http://www.woodwind.org