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Re: Your Password Reset Link from CorrLinks

From	<tomas@tuxteam.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Your Password Reset Link from CorrLinks
Date	2019-02-21 17:30 +0100
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 08:20:23AM -0800, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
> On 2/21/19, 12:38 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> >You shouldn't /bounce/ spam anyway: where are you going to bounce it
> >to? To a most probably spoofed address, i.e. to a totally innocent
> >victim? Thus generating reflected spam, aka Joe Jobs?
> 
> That depends. Some spammers don't see themselves as spammers, and
> therefore aren't spoofing other addresses. They just either (1) fail to
> honor unsubscribe requests, (2) don't put unsubscribe links in the plain
> text, or (3) omit either the unsubscribe link or the plain text (or
> both) entirely.

Well, if /you are sure/ they havent spoofed the From:, or Reply-To:
then go ahead. But you just /can't be sure/, so don't do it.

Never received bounce spam aka backscatter spam? Remember that time
(perhaps 1-2 years ago) where this very list was plagued by an
especially evil form of backscatter involving the useful idiot at
the other end of some smartphone?

Cheers
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_spam

-- t

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Your Password Reset Link from CorrLinks Web@CorrLinks.com - 2019-02-21 07:50 +0100
  Re: Your Password Reset Link from CorrLinks Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-02-21 08:40 +0100
    Re: Your Password Reset Link from CorrLinks Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-02-21 09:00 +0100
      Re: Your Password Reset Link from CorrLinks <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-21 09:40 +0100
        Re: Your Password Reset Link from CorrLinks Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-02-21 09:50 +0100
          What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset Link  from CorrLinks] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-21 10:00 +0100
            Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset  Link from CorrLinks] Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-02-21 14:30 +0100
              Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset Link from CorrLinks] Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-02-21 14:50 +0100
                Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset  Link from CorrLinks] Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-02-21 15:10 +0100
                Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset Link from CorrLinks] Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-02-21 15:40 +0100
                Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset  Link from CorrLinks] Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-02-21 16:20 +0100
                Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset  Link from CorrLinks] Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-02-21 16:30 +0100
                Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset  Link from CorrLinks] Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-02-22 12:00 +0100
                Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset  Link from CorrLinks] Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-02-22 12:10 +0100
                Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset  Link from CorrLinks] Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-02-22 15:10 +0100
                Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset  Link from CorrLinks] Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-02-22 15:20 +0100
                Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset  Link from CorrLinks] Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-02-22 15:40 +0100
                Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset  Link from CorrLinks] Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-02-25 13:00 +0100
                Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset  Link from CorrLinks] Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-02-26 04:10 +0100
                Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset  Link from CorrLinks] Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-02-22 20:40 +0100
                Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset  Link from CorrLinks] David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-23 02:00 +0100
                Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset  Link from CorrLinks] Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-02-24 02:10 +0100
                Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset Link from CorrLinks] deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-02-24 08:40 +0100
                Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset  Link from CorrLinks] Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-02-22 16:20 +0100
                Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset  Link from CorrLinks] Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-02-22 17:10 +0100
                Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset Link from CorrLinks] rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-02-21 18:40 +0100
                Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset  Link from CorrLinks] Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-02-22 04:30 +0100
                Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset Link from CorrLinks] Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-02-22 05:00 +0100
                Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset  Link from CorrLinks] Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-02-22 09:40 +0100
                Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset  Link from CorrLinks] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-22 10:00 +0100
            Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset Link from CorrLinks] Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-02-21 14:30 +0100
              Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset  Link from CorrLinks] Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-02-21 14:40 +0100
                Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset Link from CorrLinks] Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-02-21 14:50 +0100
                Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset  Link from CorrLinks] Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-02-21 15:00 +0100
                Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset  Link from CorrLinks] David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-21 21:50 +0100
              Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset  Link from CorrLinks] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-21 17:30 +0100
                Message exchange systems (was: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset Link from CorrLinks]) Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2019-02-21 17:40 +0100
                Re: Message exchange systems (was: What to do about spam in  debian-user [was: Your Password Reset Link from CorrLinks]) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-21 17:50 +0100
                Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset Link from CorrLinks] Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-02-22 05:10 +0100
        Re: Your Password Reset Link from CorrLinks <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-21 17:30 +0100
          Re: Your Password Reset Link from CorrLinks "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2019-02-21 18:00 +0100
        Re: Your Password Reset Link from CorrLinks "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2019-02-21 17:30 +0100
      Re: Your Password Reset Link from CorrLinks Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2019-02-21 14:20 +0100

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