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?
Question for computer people
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Bob Juch
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Re: Question for computer people
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.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?
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Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
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Re: Question for computer people
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?Bob Juch wrote: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.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?
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If it is a legitimate company sending the email then I'd say yes, you would be removed.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 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.
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Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
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Because the spammers went out of business?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?
I just reported 173 spam emails of all types.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.