Path: csiph.com!2.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.szaf.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Calendar spam! Date: 29 Nov 2016 18:26:06 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net M3AAqC9QU6p4b/vwL2rPHwNz9b/p4UhTd/hE9um/gvUL0IfamQ Cancel-Lock: sha1:SudcaEKSaVmFGaHnX1t195vQ+Mo= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:97440 On 2016-11-29, Alan Baker wrote: > On 2016-11-29 6:44 AM, Doc O'Leary wrote: >> For your reference, records indicate that >> Alan Baker wrote: >> >>> Whatever. What you cannot show is that a spammer just didn't get lucky. >> >> Do you really think that’s how spam operations are run? By luck? >> Either you are terminally clueless about the reality of the world, or >> you are *deeply* involved with spammers and are seeking to muddy the >> water with your irrational arguments. Frankly, I don’t care either >> way. I’m done with you. > > Do you imagine that it matters to a spammer if the method they choose > happens to hit upon your email address by luck? Of course not. By and large, spam is sent by compromised personal computers all over the world that are part of bot nets. It is of no consequence to spammers if one or all of those thousands of machines happens to send out a bunch of emails that bounce. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR