On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 09:26:33 -0500 (EST), David F. Skoll wrote:
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Keith Moore wrote:
What are the differences between a spammer and a legitimate mass
mailer?
the percentage of recipients who want to receive the messages.
that's all.
OK, let me rephrase that:
What are the *detectable* differences between a spammer and a legitimate
mass mailer, assuming we can't read the minds of the recipients?
1) a legitimate bulk emailer **should** conform to the general rules regarding
bulk email
- there are around 8 or so headers that shold be added to bulk email.
However as a number of companies block email that conform to these rules
as 'spam', legitimate bulk emailers are no longer confirming. This means that
purely from message contents and headers it is difficult to tell the
difference.
--
David.
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