On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Jonathan Nichols wrote: > Did the CAN-SPAM act really take away a citizen's right to sue spammers? > I'd like to write to this marketing company and have them provide me > with absolute proof that I signed up for *anything* at all. (they won't > be able to) I think the whole "Write us to unsubscribe" business is just > a big sham.
No, the spammers would -love- to hear from you. Then they have verified proof that that particular e-mail address goes to a human who reads and thus is valuable fodder for selling on addres lists. I have a couple of spam-trap addreses that have never been used anywhere -except- plugged into "unsubscribe" links and messages. It's rather amusing to see where they end up getting spammed from. Dave -- Dave Funk University of Iowa <dbfunk (at) engineering.uiowa.edu> College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_admin Iowa City, IA 52242-1527 #include <std_disclaimer.h> Better is not better, 'standard' is better. B{ ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk