http://securitymusings.com/article/1084/get-better-spam-filtering-with-thunderbird Rants and raves from information security professionals Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:03:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://securitymusings.com/article/1084/get-better-spam-filtering-with-thunderbird/comment-page-1#comment-10829 Peter Hesse Wed, 27 May 2009 14:28:20 +0000 http://securitymusings.com/?p=1084#comment-10829 Oh, and unless it was a message that you signed up for (by making a purchase, signing up on a website, or other prior transaction) you should generally never click any "unsubscribe" links, or send emails back. To the professional spammers, that just proves that someone does read the messages. Therefore they add your address to their "confirmed" address list, and your email address just became more valuable to them (and less valuable to you). Oh, and unless it was a message that you signed up for (by making a purchase, signing up on a website, or other prior transaction) you should generally never click any “unsubscribe” links, or send emails back. To the professional spammers, that just proves that someone does read the messages. Therefore they add your address to their “confirmed” address list, and your email address just became more valuable to them (and less valuable to you).

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