[Scspamcop] Re: low importance - anyone know what this spammer is peddling?

[ed]

On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 18:46:49 +0000 (UTC)
Larry in AZ <usenet2 at DE.LETE.THISljvideo.com> wrote:

> Waiving the right to remain silent, "Mike Easter"
> <MikeE at ster.invalid> said:
> 
> > ed wrote:
> > Subject: low importance - anyone know what this spammer is peddling?
> > 
> > As a general rule, it is of no value to try to 'read the mind' of a
> > piece of spam, as if it were a piece of mail from your friend.  The
> > principles are not the same.
> > 
> > It is not of value to wonder why particular kind of spam bogosity is
> > found in the headers and it is not of value to wonder why a spammer
> > chose the subject or From and it is not of value to wonder why the
> > spammer used this word instead of that word.  
> 
> It's of value to the OP if he says it is.  Perhaps, he's a
> psychologist, amateur, or otherwise, and that stuff interests him.
> 
> You're a bright guy and help people quite a bit around here, but
> you've got this habit of imposing your strict system of values onto
> everyone else.
> 
> Let others decide what's important to them...

In a way, that's correct, but in others, I am asking for the general
opinion of what's going on... Normally I look for keywords in the mail
to be sure it's spam before I report it. If there are things like
'V14gr4' or whatever, then yeah, that's a safe bet that it's ethically
correct to report as spam.

If it happens to be a job advert from an agency then I should not
report as spam, even if bogofilter decided it was, so I do look at the
content.

This one struck me as odd, it's not asking for money, in any obvious
way, so I wondered if the information on a CV could be of use to
them... Just a curiosity.

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