Re: New Spam Trick

[Lori MacKenzie <lmacke -at- UNM -dot- EDU>]

Joe,

I automatically delete messages that do not include a subject.
Thanks for making people aware of the importance of subjects.

Lori MacKenzie
Technical Writer/Editor

On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Joe Miller wrote:

> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 14:36:39 -0500
> From: Joe Miller <joemiller -at- CANBERRA -dot- COM>
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: New Spam Trick
>
> I start a message session by going through all listserv
> messages, deleting those I don't want to read.  This,
> obviously, includes messages headed "Make $10,000,000
> in just 2.65 seconds with my amazing...".   But just now, I
> received a message with no subject and naturally, I started
> to read it.  Yech!  Spam!
>
> The obvious defense is to dump messages with no subject.
> Not a problem until I realized that some of us occasionally
> forget to include a subject.  Please help me, and all of us,
> by remembering to include a subject so I'll have a chance
> to read your message.
>
> --Joe
> joemiller -at- canberra -dot- com
>
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