Blank emails

[Tom Anderson]

If they are indeed waiting for an "undelivered" response, then it means that
the return address is active, and must remain so for several days.  Nail
them with an attachment of, say, a Gentoo ISO (673M):
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/x86/2004.1/livecd/install-x86-universal-2004.1.iso
;)

Or just register the spam and be content with the fact that bogofilter will
kill any spam they send you.

Tom


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Bishop" <pgb at adelard.com>
To: <bogofilter at bogofilter.org>
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 6:02 AM
Subject: Blank emails


> In the last month I received a few emails that were entirely blank
> - no subject
> - no body
> One of these was from integrityol.com
>
> Judging from the name I suspect that this is a ploy for checking if
> my email account is live, i.e..the company waits to see if the email
> is returned as "undelivered", if not, the name is added to a verified
> list of email names for sale to spammers.
>
> If so I will soon be getting a lot more spam :-(
>
> Not sure if there is anything we can do about it
> - Or could I forge an "undelivered" message to get my name off the
> list?
>
>
> -- 
> Peter Bishop
> pgb at adelard.com
> pgb at csr.city.ac.uk
>
>
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