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Spam with no purpose?
From: Deepak Jain <deepak () ai net>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 22:18:03 -0500
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..
For example: From: Joe Legitimate <jlegit () university edu> To: Deepak Jain <deepak () ai net> Subject: [dictionary word][dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word] [dictionary word]
--- EOM ---I don't understand why one would waste the time, if its a test, why would it get out in public?
I would like to think I am being naive, but I just don't see the upside unless it were particularly targeted at me or my mailserver to determine our response or response time, etc.
Thanks in advance, DJ
Current thread:
- Spam with no purpose? Deepak Jain (Mar 31)
- Re: Spam with no purpose? Richard Welty (Mar 31)
- Re: Spam with no purpose? Adrian Chadd (Mar 31)
- Re: Spam with no purpose? Christopher L. Morrow (Mar 31)
- Re: Spam with no purpose? Jerry Eyers (Apr 01)
- Re: Spam with no purpose? Randy Bush (Apr 01)
- Re: Spam with no purpose? bmanning (Apr 01)
- Re: Spam with no purpose? Randy Bush (Apr 01)
- Re: Spam with no purpose? Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Apr 01)
- Re: Mail with no purpose? Richard Cox (Apr 01)
- Re: Mail with no purpose? william(at)elan.net (Apr 01)