Hadmut Danisch said:
From http://www.emaildepot.net/, a commercial provider for
address lists for spamming:
The 1,000,000 email addresses that we provide each week are general,
non-targeted addresses, and are about 90% USA-based. These are not
opt-in addresses, but we have removed many of the flamers and
trouble-makers from the lists. We run them all through our commercial
grade verification programs to ensure deliverability.
Lovely. Let's become "trouble-makers".
Aha. That explains something I've been wondering about. Spammers are
often keen to get hold of the address of people who complain about spam;
hence the disguised email addrs in headers, HTML comments etc.
I assumed it was for "revenge" actions like joe-jobs.
In fact, it's to clean lists of "trouble-makers", to reduce abuse
complaints.
A good reason for us all to complain, then!
--j.
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