Re: [Asrg] who gets the report, was We really don't need

Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> Mon, 08 February 2010 17:43 UTC

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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Comments: In reply to John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> "Re: [Asrg] who gets the report, was We really don't need" (Feb 8, 3:33pm)
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On Feb 8,  3:33pm, John Levine wrote:
}
} If a spammer wants to confirm receipt, which very few of them do,
} he uses web bugs.  I suppose info about the MUA might be marginally
} useful, but if I were a spammer and knew that a recipient was
} sufficiently annoyed to press the spam button, I'd take them off the
} list.  I still have millions of other people to mail to, after all.

And what if you were not a spammer, but a phisher?