~BD~ wrote:
> Mike Easter wrote:

>> Did that come from your opening and reading and pasting from spam for
>> E-Detective?
>
> Yes - IIRC it *was* from a SPAM notated post in Hotmail.

I recommend that you cease opening and reading your spam.

As a general rule, such practice profits the spam process in various
ways, most of which are unexpected by the foolish spam handler.

The best way for spam to be 'handled' is for it to be diverted from user
accessibility by the mail handling processes; preferably by initially
blocking/preventing its generation into the mail stream, secondarily by
refusing its acceptance at the server level, tertiarily (new word) by
the diversion into the spam/junk folder by the mail provider, and as a
last resort by the user who finds the spam being accessible having the
*discipline* to go no further in hir reading than to 'see' the
To/Subject/From, at which time that user /must/ delete the item unopened
and uninvestigated.

Experienced anti-spam handlers and spam reporters who are actually doing
some good about something as opposed to the spammee handlers who profit
the spam process are to be distinguished from those spam-curious. The
'rules' of investigation do not include starting the investigation by
opening the spam like the spamcurious spam-profitting spam opening spam
reading spamlink clicking spammee who is the 'cause' of spam working
because it is profitable.


--
Mike Easter