Re: Junk mail and rotting web (SPAM)

Stardrive9@aol.com
Wed, 3 Feb 1999 12:02:40 EST

In a message dated 2/3/99 8:33:39 AM, spike66@ibm.net writes:

>does anyone know: when you get a spam with a remove button,
>should you reply remove or just play dead and not reply? spike
>
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The current urban legend is that replying to this link will only get you more spam. My experience is that each mail server has its own policy for reporting and dealing with the stuff. If yours doesn't, there are now quite a few free mail servers (i.e., Netscape, Excite) who do.

John Thomas