[69246] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Spam with no purpose?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michel Py)
Wed Mar 31 23:33:14 2004
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 20:30:48 -0800
From: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
To: "Gregory Hicks" <ghicks@cadence.com>, <deepak@ai.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>> Deepak Jain wrote:
>> Can someone explain to me (publicly or privately) why someone
>> would send spam with no product to sell, no position to pitch,
>> nothing except text designed to get by a spam filter --
>> without even HTML to KNOW it got by a spam filter..
> Gregory Hicks wrote
> It is a probe to verify the address. since it did not
> bounce, the address is verified.
Old-school; nowadays probes to measure the real bounce rate are real
text, not just a bunch of words. I got one recently thanking me for a
wonderful week-end...
Michel.
