Charles Christacopoulos wrote:
[snip]
PS. Had there been on the spam a trustworthy address to unsubscribe from or
a legitimate website to do the same, I would in this instance, and contrary
to advise I/we give, had taken the option to unsubscribe and that would have
been it.
[/snip]
The advice to ignore unsubscribe addresses lingers on and is virtually
useless. Most true spammers have no interest in what your email address is
for two reasons;
1) they clone and clone and clone and validate their lists by absence of
bounces
2) HTML emails, which people truly do like to receive (my own list has fewer
than 1% who insist on text emails) carry webbugs (mini database related
images that track precisely what happens to the emails)
So, by the time you have received the spamming b'stard's email you are
already on the list for ever. And if the list is a non EEA list you have
no-one to complain to (if you ever did).
For those truly interested in spam, google has a group NANAE (details from
the links page on our website). I counsel you to lurk rather than post. It
is not for the faint hearted and not for the amateur. It is a newsgroup,
and carries a lot of clout.
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