If you’re on a mailing list, don’t do this
I was having trouble getting the speech rate speeded up in Festival so I joined the mailing list to ask a question. A little bit later I got an email with the subject “I received your email,” which made me immediately think it was spam. The body:
Since this is the first email that I have received from you,
I need to confirm that your email is legitimate and not unsolicited.PLEASE SEND A REPLY TO THIS EMAIL BUT FIRST COPY THE ENTIRE LINE BELOW (set of codes) TO THE SUBJECT LINE OF YOUR REPLY. MAKE SURE THAT THE SUBJECT CONTAINS ONLY THE LINE BELOW.
47584$$ 89709x ghg iou 562910496gustavo-lbrasil
After receiving a correct reply, this and any future email will be delivered without any further confirmation.
Thank you for your support on helping to reduce unsolicited and junk emails.
In other words, this person is too lazy to bother with other spam-fighting techniques and has just hoisted the white flag and determined the best policy is to only receive mail from people on a whitelist. Not only that, but legitimate emailers should be forced to go through some contortions just to have the pleasure of knowing that this person read their email. The last sentence of the mail should read, “Thank you for your support on helping me to reduce my unsolicited and junk emails.”
If you use one of these programs and you join an email discussion list, why not turn it off for emails that come from the list? Or would that be an inconvenience? Yeah, now you know how I feel.
