1st July 2002
Who hates spam with all of his heart? Lockergnomie Aron Hess: "I recently got a 'newsletter' from a place where I had never signed up for a newsletter. Now, I use a junk account for all my Web forms, newsletters and such, and I forward these to my real (personal) account. When I start getting too much spam, I throw away that account and start a new one, all the while keeping my true one clean for family and friends. Well, I opened this 'newsletter' because it seemed catered to my interests, but it turned out to be crap (like normal). Right after that, there was something in my Outbox; I looked and discovered that it was a 'read receipt' headed right back to the company, with my legit address on it. Luckily, I had Outlook set to send messages only when I tell it to - because if it had gone through, the flood would have started. I just thought the viewers might like to know about this, in case they use shill accounts forwarded to a clean one too, or to set their mail client to never send a read receipt." Since instructions vary from application to application, you'd be wise to check your help file before you, too, fall victim to this heinous act.