[Gllug] Urgent

[John Winters]

On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 11:02, Daniel Andersson wrote:
> > On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 08:50, Sudhir Anand wrote:
> > > Please do not respond to this message.  Ignore it altogether.
> > > 
> > > On Friday 29 November 2002 22:52, Dr.Tom Tanga wrote:
> > > > STRICTLY PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL.
> > 
> > [Nigerian scam snipped]
> > 
> > This is the one kind of UBE I do respond to and am thinking of setting
> > up an auto-responder.  They're unique in that they do actually tend to
> > have a real reply-to address.  If everyone responded, either with a
> > simple, "No thanks" or something more direct, the senders would be
> > thoroughly overwhelmed and it might discourage them.
> 
> probably not
> they only need 0.01% (a wild guess) responding, and they'll make money
> so no real reason for them to stop, me thinks

Except that if they get a response from everyone with only 0.01%
positive then they're going to have to sift through an awful lot of
e-mail for each useful one.

Imagine if you got 10,000 junk e-mails for every useful one you
received.

John

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