RE:Re: Why No One Should EVER Send "Remove"Messages

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• To: perennials@mallorn.com
• Subject: RE:Re: Why No One Should EVER Send "Remove"Messages
• From: D* M* <m*@eskimo.com>
• Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 16:25:31 +0000

<snip>

                  HE WANTS YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS

This spammer, like many others, is trying to build up a mailing list 
without having to pay for the names.  His technique is simple.  He sends 
an innocuous message to a number of lists, and offers to remove people's 
names if they send him a "Remove" message.

<snip>
True statement above.

If these spammers had any knowledge on how a majordomo account works,
they could just simply join any majordomo mailing list  and send a
command to the majordomo account and ask for the email addresses of all
the members of a mailing list and then sign off the mailing list. All
majordomo accounts are set up this way.  

I'm sorry, I will not provide the command. 



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