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Why I'm being spawned?
Name: Eduardo Date: August 31, 2002 at 02:16:43 Pacific
Comment:
I'm waiting for important e-mails but not these type of e-mail "make money" why did I get 2 from the same f---er?
Name: Underdog Date: August 31, 2002 at 07:32:25 Pacific
Reply:
One thing that the spammer is hoping for is that you will e-mail him/her/it back to take yourself off their mailing list. When you do this all you are doing is confirming that your e-mail account is active. Then your e-mail address can be sold to other spammers. And so on, and so on, and so on. Whatever you do not respond to them!
Underdog
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Response Number 2
Name: Eduardo Date: August 31, 2002 at 07:59:30 Pacific
Reply:
Good I decided not to reply this time.
And what is the point of being a spammer? What good do they get on this?
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Response Number 3
Name: Underdog Date: August 31, 2002 at 08:14:50 Pacific
Reply:
Spammers hope to get internet users to visit a site that they would not normally visit, the majority being porno. And as I said, they gather information either for thier own use or to sell to other companies. It's a lucrative business if you devote the time to it. It cost my organization a few thousand dollars in order for me to filter this type of e-mails from our system. And the people that sale the filtering software know they have you over a barrel. Especially in my situation where there is school kids involved and we by law have to have Content Filtering in place. Later!
Underdog V-Peace-V
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Response Number 4
Name: Jada Date: August 31, 2002 at 19:14:54 Pacific
Reply:
Spawned?
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Response Number 5
Name: What? Date: September 4, 2002 at 11:23:04 Pacific
Reply:
Jada?
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Response Number 6
Name: Jennifer Date: September 4, 2002 at 11:53:03 Pacific
Reply:
I was referring to the subject. "Spawned??"
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Response Number 7
Name: What? Date: September 4, 2002 at 12:23:32 Pacific
Reply:
If you were making fun of him, shame on you. If you were just trying to figure out what "Spawned" means, I think Eduardo was meaning to say "Spammed" (at least from the context of his message).
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Response Number 8
Name: Jennifer Date: September 5, 2002 at 05:02:35 Pacific
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