[7165] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Suggestion for NANOG Meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Mon Jan 20 18:55:58 1997
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 13:23:28 -0800 (PST)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@zocalo.net>
To: madison@acsi.net, mleber@he.net
Cc: nanog@MERIT.EDU, srh@MERIT.EDU
Mike Leber <mleber@he.net> writes:
> Using "ask to be taken off their list" as an indicator indicates
> a naive understanding of how serious spam servers (for lack of a
> better term) operate.
> The primary reason that a well written spam includes a way "to
> get off the list" are it gives recipients an action to take,
> thus reducing complaints.
> You can ask to be removed from the scam artist's lists all you
> want, but you will never be removed from the spam server's
> master list.
I can confirm this. The reply-to address of a good deal of the spam
out there is <someusername>@domain.com, the example address, so the
"remove-request" just gets a reply from the example address mailbot
and is then trashed. We're currently seeing about 20mb/day of these
misaddressed remove-requests.
-Bill
