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Question for computer people
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:26 am
by peacock2121
Do people who send out those "make you pee bigger" or "Help me get my money out of the country" e-mails know who opens them and who just hits delete without opening them?
Can they know if they so choose?
Re: Question for computer people
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:59 am
by Bob Juch
peacock2121 wrote:Do people who send out those "make you pee bigger" or "Help me get my money out of the country" e-mails know who opens them and who just hits delete without opening them?
Can they know if they so choose?
If the emails are in HTML, they can have information returned to them when the emails are opened if your system is unprotected from that sort of thing. However most spam is not HTML.
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:02 am
by Mr Showtimeness
Wouldn't you like to know!
I just wish I'd quit getting 6-7 page handwritten spams from this one guy back in the States....
Re: Question for computer people
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 5:54 am
by Sir_Galahad
Bob Juch wrote:peacock2121 wrote:Do people who send out those "make you pee bigger" or "Help me get my money out of the country" e-mails know who opens them and who just hits delete without opening them?
Can they know if they so choose?
If the emails are in HTML, they can have information returned to them when the emails are opened if your system is unprotected from that sort of thing. However most spam is not HTML.
Well, let me pose this one to you. If I clicked on the "Remove me from further mailings" does my email address get removed from that list or is it further harvested to more mailing lists?
Re: Question for computer people
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 6:11 am
by BackInTex
Sir_Galahad wrote:Well, let me pose this one to you. If I clicked on the "Remove me from further mailings" does my email address get removed from that list or is it further harvested to more mailing lists?
If it is a legitimate company sending the email then I'd say yes, you would be removed.
If is it 'pee spam' then no. All you are doing is verifying the address is a working address and it makes it a valuable ($) resale commodity.
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 6:13 am
by peacock2121
Okay - at one time I was getting the penis ads and the see Catherine Zeta Jones nekkid ads. I would just delete them without clicking on them. I no longer get any.
Why would that be?
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:21 am
by Bob Juch
peacock2121 wrote:Okay - at one time I was getting the penis ads and the see Catherine Zeta Jones nekkid ads. I would just delete them without clicking on them. I no longer get any.
Why would that be?
Because the spammers went out of business?
I just reported 173 spam emails of all types.