If, say I posted someones email address

If, say I posted someones email address in a message on a newsgroup, just
lets say and lets just say he happens to be a
person who ripped me off with an item on e-bay would he get much spam?
Hypothectically speaking of course....................

 

Yes, but if he ripped you off and used a hotmail addy...he probably created
it with the intentions of throwing it away.

--Tina

 

Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.

If I only download plain text messages, how would you infect my computer
anyway? What's grisoft got to certify about that? And why would I care
what the release date, database and version numbers are? Why would you
send money to a guy with only a hotmail account, hypothetically or not?
Why am I talking to myself?

 

Well, I always post crap to porno newsgroups, i.e., "alt.erotica.pedo (add
crud from here)" using my exwife's email address. I usually post something
like "You sick bastards...." She gets lots of unsolicited photos of little
boys and penis enlargement spams. She must like it, 'cause she never
complains to me about it. But then, we haven't been on speaking terms since
the divorce.

When we were first married she thought I hung the moon; later she just
thought I was well hung. Now she wishes I were hanged.

 

If it's a Hotmail address, none to very little. I get about 200 spam
messages a day to the address I use to register domains. My Hotmail
address that I use here gets about 5 a week that slip through Hotmail's
filtering.

 

Not usually in the body of the message, no.
Spammers don't usually READ these messages. They just use software that
downloads the addresses.

Doesn't ebay already have quite a lot to help you with such deals?

If they do, you would compromise your claim by doing anything against
the other party.
And keep in mind it isn't usually a problem for him to just change his
address.

 

John,

You said:

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If that IS true, it might not be so for long. With the sophistication of
spammers nowadays, I'd be surprised if they didn't use software that scans
the body of messages and searches for the phrase "prefix @ suffix . com".

My own e-mail is filtered through a Postini spam filter. Postini is an
industry leader that services major corporations. They are constantly fine
tuning their filters. It's amazing to watch the one up-manship between
spammers and the filter guys.

- John R. Baker

 

I suspected that, too, until someone explained to me how much more work
it was to download the message content for such filtering.
Apparently, it still isn't worth doing that extra step.

But what is Postini's motivation? Do they store any info? Do they sell
any customer info?

 

another one for spam