Re: stop your mail
Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> writes:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 05:18:54PM +0200, Sébastien Gautrin wrote:
>> The "stop your mail" and "PLEASE STOP YOUR MAILS" messages are definitely
>> not created by the owners of the email, though it might be done by a mobile
>> app as suggested.
>
> I've replied off-list to some of them to explain what (I think) is
> happening and they carry on conversation exactly as if they are very
> confused humans who just want the spam to stop.
>
> I've also had my own email address used as the from address of
> similar spam, thus forcing me to receive hundreds of "STOP THE MAIL"
> responses that look similar to these. At that time I came up with a
> boilerplate explanatory email to send back to these complainants,
> and any replies I got seemed similarly human-generated.
>
>> The proof of this is that they all have nearly the exact same content (some
>> add the list mail, some don't), all being HTML messages formatted the same
>> way.
>
> It may come as a shock to you but most non-technical email users use
> HTML email.
His point wasn't that they're all HTML, it's that they have nearly
identical content and identically formatted HTML.
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