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Re: Mail with no purpose?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Sat Apr 3 07:31:28 2004

In-Reply-To: <DD7FE473A8C3C245ADA2A2FE1709D90B0DB059@server2003.arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
Cc: "<nanog@nanog.org>" <nanog@nanog.org>
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 14:17:54 +0200
To: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On 1-apr-04, at 18:49, Michel Py wrote:

> In other words: if you're already to the point where you are using a
> text-mode mail client or disabling HTML and/or other stuff in a GUI
> client, you are no loss to the spammer if your email does not confirm 
> as
> valid (because you would not even read it nor buy any of their crud in
> the first place).

So what you're saying is that these validation schemes are a good thing?


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