Posted by Davey on October 22, 2003 at 19:52 [65.81.36.149]
In Reply to: Re: Hotmail sucks posted by babyBeth on October 22, 2003 at 18:46
As a computer science major, I'd like to point out a few things.
1. It has become common practice for spam programs to just "generate" email addresses, send spam, and if the spam doesn't bounce, they know they have an account. For example, they'll send spam to aaaa@hotmail.com, aaab@hotmail.com ... With computing resources available today, it's no big deal for them.
2. Unless an email account bounces, the spammers keep sending mail to it, reply or not, "click to unsubscribe" or not.
These used to be different, but now the spammers have bandwidth and computers to spare, so they hit everyone. :(
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