On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 17:11:32 +0200 Axb <axb.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 08/13/2014 05:04 PM, Antony Stone wrote: > > For the Nigerian 419 spam, the last thing you want to do is reply > > to it :)
> unsubscribe doesn't mean "reply" The point is that any unsubscribe mechanism must of necessity inform the list owner that your email address really does work. I believe that unsubscribing is safe. If the list owner is legitimate, unsubscribing will work. If the list owner is a spammer, he/she already has your email address and I don't believe spammers track the validity of addresses anyway. (Safe doesn't mean effective, of course!) The only case in which unsubscribing is dangerous is if you unsubscribe from a previously-unknown address. That'll get you added to spammers' lists. Regards, David.
