[SpamCop-List] Re: Pump and Dump

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"indigo" <nobody at spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:d9ui9d$f9c$1 at news.spamcop.net...
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> J G wrote:
> > On 6/28/2005 3:50 PM Trish Roberts-Miller scribbled:
> >
> > <snip>
> > >
> > > Since then, almost all of my pump-and-dump stock spam has been
> > > downloaded as though it's already been read. (I use mozilla, in case
> > > that's relevant.) The sysadmin and I have both assumed that my mail
> > > is compromised, and acted accordingly, but I thought I would ask
> > > here, as perhaps it's a well-known phenomenon that pump-and-dump
> > > mail *looks* read.
> > >
> > I'd join Mike and ask, what do you mean, already read?
> > Don't see how Mozilla has anything to do with it - I don't know how
> > you mean pump and dump looks read - I *know* how it looks old...
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> I'm assuming she's referring to something like the way Mickeysoft email
> software works -- if the message hasn't been read, the subject line is in
> bold. Once it's marked as read the line is normal text, not in bold.
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Additionally, in OE, there is a right-click drop down menu that allows one
to 'mark' a message as 'read' or 'unread', no matter what the current
condition actually is.

That, of course, does not change what you know about the message (whether
you have opened the message or not), just its appearance in the message
list.

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