[ILUG] Out-of-date spam ?

[Sean O Sullivan]

Timothy Murphy wrote:

>On Tue 12 Apr 2005 10:56, Joseph Kiniry wrote:
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>>>As a matter of interest, why does the spam I get
>>>often have an old date on it ?
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>>To pop to the top of your inbox, since most people sort on date.  (The Date
>>line can be falsified easily.)
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>In my case, it has the opposite effect -
>I sort by date, with the most recent on top,
>so ancient email is way down the pile.
>I only notice it because I am told I have unread mail.
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>If they put a future date on the email I could understand,
>but that never occurs in my case.
>(Maybe spamassassin or my ISP throws it out?)
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>Just one of the many mysteries of spam.
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>I saw a guy got 9 years in prison for sending spam -
>apparently he was sending 1,000,000 spams a day.
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>If people were charge a miniscule sum for email -
>say 0.01 cents per item -
>wouldn't that discourage spammers?
>It would still be 5000 times cheaper than smail.
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It may at least get people thinking before sending to mailing lists :)