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  • From: Neal <webdeveloper02 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Greeting Card Spam?
  • Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 08:54:40 -0800 (PST)


One of the things that's always urked me about spam is that I can almost
always tell when the
return e-mail address is bogus without even trying to reply to it.

I like this idea from ( http://mail-abuse.org/gc_rbl.html ):

"" ** Greeting Card sites could place a card into a pending spool and email a
notification back to
the sender, requiring either a web link or email response, prior to
activating the card and
sending mail to the final recipient. This will verify that the listed sender
address is valid and
responding to email. ""

Also... keep in mind that the sender is trying to get a message across.. be
it advertising a web
site, selling a product, etc... and hence they eventually do have to provide
you with some sort of
"real" contact information.. be it a URL to the site, a phone number, etc...

.. and that's where I would love to see a client-side tool come in.. for
instance: A tool that
would allow you to select the e-mail and pull URLs from it... lookup the
owners domain / contact
information for that domain.. and send them a nasty-gram back.. etc..

- Neal


--- "Michael D. Thomas" <mdthomas AT mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> origionator -- one that makes origions.
>
> In my opinion, our last discussion about
> email greeting cards and the spam possibilities
> was quite enjoyable and enlightening with
> well thought-out posts from all who
> contributed.
>
> Of course, maybe I'm biased as I'm one of
> the ones that contributed.:-)
>


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