Do Unsubscribe Links Stop Spam?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday December 15, 2004 @04:18AM from the click-here-to-find-out dept.

Kaiten writes "Brian McWilliams of Spam Kings fame has just published a fascinating spammer exposé over at Salon. Using a pseudonym, he was hired to send junk email on behalf of a spam operation that has been burying people (me included) with spam for fake Rolex watches. The article details how the spammers handle the 200,000-plus unsubscribe requests they get each month. Seems that LOTS of geeks actually cross their fingers and click those remove links. And, surprise, surprise, the spammers usually ignore the unsubscribe requests."

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Re:another waste of money by grub · 2004-12-15 04:44 · Score: 0, Offtopic

It's like doing a study on why people have sex.

Or a study on why over 3/4 of a million /.ers don't.

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Re:another waste of money by fimbulvetr · 2004-12-15 04:50 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Damn! I've been having sex all this time because I thought I could live longer.