Re: Why Spam is a problem

[John Stracke <jstracke at centivinc.com>]

Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> John Stracke <jstracke at centivinc.com> writes:
>  
>
> > Mmm, but that pours gasoline on the villagers' torches.  It'd be much
> > more clearly a crime, since it's so obviously an attempt to evade the
> > recipient's filters.
> Are you kidding? They've been doing thing to explicitly evade filters
> for years now. For example, ever notice groups of random characters at
> the end of spam Subject: lines?
>  
A spammer can claim that those there for legitimate technical reasons, 
to help them to track responses/bounces.  Sending 1000 messages gets 
harder to justify.

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