RE: Spam with no purpose?

["Michel Py" <michel () arneill-py sacramento ca us>]

> > Deepak Jain wrote:
> > Can someone explain to me (publicly or privately) why someone
> > would send spam with no product to sell, no position to pitch,
> > nothing except text designed to get by a spam filter --
> > without even HTML to KNOW it got by a spam filter..

> Gregory Hicks wrote
> It is a probe to verify the address.  since it did not
> bounce, the address is verified.

Old-school; nowadays probes to measure the real bounce rate are real
text, not just a bunch of words. I got one recently thanking me for a
wonderful week-end...

Michel.