On Friday 13 February 2004 10:19 pm, Craig Daters wrote:
> >Maybe it's cool for you but surely not for a sender who receives that
> >auto spam.
>
> How is it spam? The sender is simply receiving an email asking for
> them to confirm that they sent the message? All they do is reply to
> it. It is no different that subscribing to a Mail-List these days.
It is spam for the people whose addresses were forged, and to whom the
confirmation is being sent, when they didn't send anything to request it.
> If you are the unfortunate soul whose email address was spoofed and
> get a confirmation, then the text of the confirmation is editable so
> that hopefully there would be an explanation within that would
> convince the recipient to ignore it if they indeed did not send the
> message.
Telling someone to ignore the message is not an acceptable compensation for
having sent them spam in the first place (using spam, here, to mean generally
irrelevant and unwanted email).
Antony.
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