Spam with no purpose?
Michel Py
michel at arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us
Thu Apr 1 04:30:48 UTC 2004
>> 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.
More information about the NANOG
mailing list