It just baffles me! Surely if they want to sell their product they’d get someone with at least 3 braincells to produce the spam.
Putting ‘re:’ before the subject instantly tells me to look and see if it’s something I sent in the first place. you see, if I sent someone an e-mail, and they replied to it, the e-mail client would put ‘re:’ before the subject. So when I see a message with ‘re: that thing you asked for’ I know it’s SPAM because I never sent anyone anything with the subject ‘that thing you asked for’
:rolleyes:
Maybe there’s a good reason for it (unlikely) but I maintain that spammers are the stupidest people on earth.
I assume they’re targetting people who send anough emails that they’re not sure if they sent one ensubjected “that thing that you asked for.” If it’s a plausible title I’m sure they’ll get some nibbles. I don’t disagree that spammers seem remarkably stupid, but I’m not sure this is their worst offense.
I hope you don’t mean those victims who have had an e-mail account since WAY before spam was a problem and who still recieve the odd useful e-mail in that account and who are fully aware of the idea of using more than one e-mail address and who don’t want to download a spam filter or who can’t because they sometimes read their mail at work.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!! Lobsang, you have far too much faith in the email literacy of people.
I have received countless emails from people that begin “re:”. Since I recognize the names, I think, “Hey, I can’t remember sending him/her an email about that!” When I read them, it turns out that it is a brand-new email. These people apparently believe that the word “Subject:” is not enough to identify that the next words will represent the topic of the email, and they drive me batty. It’s particularly annoying when they post like this on group lists at which it is very possible that I missed the original email, as posted by someone else.
How many spams would a woodchuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck spam?
Tired of living in that hole of a house?
Re: That hole you dug
LOOSE WEIGHT WHILE YOU HIBERNATE
Re:f.i.n.a.n.c.e y-o-u-r b/u/r/r/o/w 4.5%!!! LOW LOW
Hi. Let’s sleep together this winter!
DUDE!
Dread the day when furry rodents gain e-mail access. Oh wait…
And damn the jerks, it works. I teach classes, and give my students the option of emailing me their homework. sometimes they forget to put anything in the subject heading, or, they’ll put something odd in the subject line, so if an email is in the least iffy, I need to look at it.
You’re kidding, right? The service that takes my spam and throws it into a “Bulk Mail” folder, which fills up in about 10 minutes, thus preventing me from receiving real mail?
They don’t block diddley!
[sub]then again, if they do block it… that would mean I’m getting a zillion pieces o’ spam…[/sub]
I’ll admit it puts me off a bit when I get an email from my sister or my wife’s aunt … or so I think… until I notice the subject line reads something like SJUEWOOEIR or ;;’;’)))) or SPLIT HER OPEN WITH YOUR FAT POLE…
…and I realize that this ain’t FROM my sister or my wife’s aunt… just someone using that NAME…
That why I have to empty my email every few days to prevent the inbox from overflowing. Yahoo was even kind of enough to create a “bulk mail” folder for all the spam they pretty obviously directed my way. How do you think they help finance their mail servers in the first place?
My favorite is the spam offering you solutions to spam.
Thanks to the spammers I have apparently accidently deleted a very important email while cleaning out my main address. My only hope is that I think I sent a copy of the email to my friend. I’m going to call him tomorrow and pray he didn’t delete it as well. If he did I will have a huge mess on my hands that’s going to take me several hours to sort out.
Damn them to hell! May a thousand car alarms ring under their bedroom windows twenty fours hours a day!
What I don’t understand is that they know no one wants to see their garbage, they spell it out elborate ways to get past filters, and yet some people are still dumb enough to buy this stuff to justify even sending it to begin with…
As awful as spam is, it’s still not as bad (to me) as regular ol’ junk mail. I can delete spam. I can even set up rules or filters to prevent some of it from getting in. I can’t do that with junk mail as it fills up my tiny mailbox.