marketplace virus posting

[George Selby]

At 10:36 PM 4/11/04 -0400, you wrote:
>(By the way, why does it seem like it's difficult to detect spammers.  I 
>mean, if the spam comes from a business that only makes money if you can 
>find them to send it to, where's the mystery as to who's responsible for 
>the spam?  If they are ignoring the business client of the spammer and 
>trying to go after the spammer, then maybe they're (the anti-spam groups) 
>going after the wrong folks.  I must be missing something about that.)


The part you aren't getting is the businesses being advertised don't exist. 
(Well some do, but most don't.) They only want you to respond to get a 
valid e-mail address that they can then sell - mostly to other spammers, 
and a few to legitimate businesses.  It's a vicious cycle.

George Selby