From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7af740d4efbc76c5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-11 07:05:09 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!proxad.net!feeder2-1.proxad.net!news3-e.free.fr!not-for-mail From: Samuel Tardieu Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: yogurt (way off topic) References: MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 16:02:48 +0200 Message-ID: <87u0zqvchj.fsf@beeblebrox.enst.fr> Organization: Avian Carrier & Friends User-Agent: T-gnus/6.16.2 (based on Gnus v5.10.2) (revision 02) SEMI/1.14.5 (Awara-Onsen) FLIM/1.14.5 (Demachiyanagi) APEL/10.6 Emacs/21.3 (i386--freebsd) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fFK7wieFoaqrcxsrbDnBWYjKtdA= X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:660:330f:f810:200:39ff:fe25:3aa2 NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Apr 2004 16:05:09 MEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.56.47.149 X-Trace: 1081692309 news3-e.free.fr 22865 81.56.47.149:4458 X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6981 Date: 2004-04-11T16:05:09+02:00 List-Id: >>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Leake writes: Stephen> Just out of curiosity, does anyone know why people post these Stephen> random noise things? They don't seem to be selling Stephen> anything. What is the point? When the return address is valid, checking whether a given address bounces or not. Best: if someone answers to ask what it is, his email address is fully confirmed and will be included in a very good grade address list for spam. When the return address is invalid, those mails are meant to confuse adaptive filters and make them useless. Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@rfc1149.net -- http://www.rfc1149.net/sam