[Gllug] Urgent

Daniel Andersson daniel at septum.org
Sat Nov 30 11:02:58 UTC 2002


> 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
(even if they get spammed)

/ d

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