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Re: Address Confirmation Request

On Wednesday, March 31, 2004, at 02:44 PM, email@hidden wrote:

I've been getting occasional "Address Confirmation Request" messages from a "spamjammer.com" domain. On the chance that it's a result of someone on this list (as I send virtually no other e-mail from this address), please tell them to stop asking, because I'm not replying.

(I have no idea what the message in question says, as it is 100% HTML--no plain text at all--and I assume all such messages are either viruses or spam and delete them unread. In this case, "Address Confirmation Request" sounds like a likely come-on, and I wouldn't put it past a spammer to adopt a domain name like "spamjammer.com". If they're legitimate, then *their* mail shouldn't look so much like spam.)

I have gotten just one of these. Not enough to be a real nuisance. I didn't reply either on the off-chance the source was in fact a spammer. I think most spammers around have already demonstrated they aren't too concerned about the ethical issues involved in misrepresenting themselves. I would just as soon stay off a spammer's hit list at the risk of one individual losing out on whatever words of wisdom I had penned.
If it is a legimate service I have a little difficulty in seeing how it can be practical? Especially along with mailing lists. Assuming everyone on a mailing list has such a service intercepting and then requesting confirmation of my message I am most definitely not going to do it. I already didn't for one. These "services" could it seems to me spell the end as we know it of mailing lists if they catch on and work as they seem to.


Mike Hall <mikehall at spacestar dot net>
<http://www.spacestar.net/users/mikehall>
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