[SC-Help] Re: Spammer Redirection Trick

[Glenn Daniels]

"Mike Easter"  wrote in message
> Posted to .help and .spam;  f/ups to .help
>
> Glenn Daniels wrote:
> > "El Guapo" wrote:
> >
> >> What is the spammer doing with redirection in this spam and how does
> >> it work? If you go to the website, it redirects people to

...

> Second, if you paste a spam in .spam, the 'natural' and simplest thing
> for someone to do is to answer the question there, instead of 'moving'
> the discussion somewhere else by messing with the headers of the
> answering post and putting it in .spam and some other 'normal'
> discussion group -- like I'm doing now.

Sorry, Mike. I was caught up in the responding and neglected the
housekeeping. My bad...

> The problem with discussing a spam pasted into .spam is that 'no one'
> <smiley> reads in .spam because it is traditionally just a place for
> pasting spam which is being discussed in a discussion group.  Who wants
> to go to .spam and read raw spam?

<G>uilty?  I dint look at the spam, I looked at the question being posed
</G>.

> So, IMO, the better thing to do for all purposes is to make a tracker of
> a spam and to paste the tracker into a normal discussion group like
> spamcop or spamcop.help along with your questions.  Then the spam
> remains intact at the tracker, and the discussion can happen in a normal
> discussion group where more people will see it and benefit from it

Agreed: .spam  is as a last resort when one can't obtain a parse tracker.

Thanks for the fups.

Glenn