[SpamCop-List] Re: I want more spam!

[Philippe Verdy (n.o-s.p.a.m+abuse)]

"Jeff G." <jeffg at spamcop.net> a écrit dans le message de news: 
dndljm$no6$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> "Spaz" <yea at right.com> wrote in message
> news:dnbajd$aos$1 at news.spamcop.net...
>> What's the best way for me to get on a good spam list?
>
> In addition to what the others have written, you could also:
> read your spam, with HTML rendered

reading a spam with HTML rendered is not dangerous by itself and doesnot 
generate more spam. What is really dangerous is the cross-site linking, with 
external documents (scripts, images, stylesheets, objects...) loaded from 
URLs on the internet instead of within the HTML email itself.

These links contain hidden cookies that allow spammers getting a 
confirmation that the email has reached its recipient, and allow them to 
create profiles of users possibly interested in similar "products", and for 
which it will be profitable to send more related spams until they buy 
something or give their credit card number.

Spammers are using the same marketing strategies also used by legal 
companies, except that they absolutely don't care about privacy and laws. 
Their business is really unfair and opposed to all acceptable commercial 
practices that legal businesses can't use without becoming outlaws. Don't be 
surprized then, when legal business are fed up of the constraints that put 
them in unequal position for competition, and when they are new too often 
tempted to use some of the same unfair practices (see the Sony rootkit 
affair, or violation of distribution rights by the largest media 
distributors).

Spammers are a clear threat to democracy, to the protection of citizen 
freedoms, and to the stability of countries. The various disorders they 
insuflate in the economy have now a very huge cost (probably much more now 
than the existing narcotraffics or even terrorism). The threat they have 
caused have had so much impact on our lives thatthey could be the cause of 
international instability (caused by destabilisation of economic rules, the 
abandon of the application of existing laws, and the creation of new laws 
that profit only to a minority of large businesses). Tomorrow, if nothing is 
done, they will directly create political instabilities, hainous behaviors 
and speeches against minorities or foreign countries, and finally wars.