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Subject:New Spam Trick From:Joe Miller <joemiller -at- CANBERRA -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 12 Nov 1997 14:36:39 -0500
I start a message session by going through all listserv
messages, deleting those I don't want to read. This,
obviously, includes messages headed "Make $10,000,000
in just 2.65 seconds with my amazing...". But just now, I
received a message with no subject and naturally, I started
to read it. Yech! Spam!
The obvious defense is to dump messages with no subject.
Not a problem until I realized that some of us occasionally
forget to include a subject. Please help me, and all of us,
by remembering to include a subject so I'll have a chance
to read your message.
