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you can always send em a message back sayin "BULLSHIT YOU SPAM'

or sometin like that , but i wudnt trust this .. i've gotten many 'research' letters like these =/

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Originally posted by raceprouk
If it was a university project, they'd be using a university address. Now, I don't know about you, but I haven't heard of 'Research Project University', nor a uni with .org (they're usually .edu (US) or .ac.uk or similar).

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Yeah, and "research-project" sounds way too generic and obvious.

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Originally posted by SikStyles
you can always send em a message back sayin "BULLSHIT YOU SPAM'

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Erm.. they probably don't even read the mails they get. Just parse them automatically for addresses.

If you email back you're more likely to get more spam because they know they found an email then, then sell your email address to other spammy people, thus you get more. I would just delete it lol

I have a mail bomber and im gonna spam the crap out of them.

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Originally posted by Purity
I have a mail bomber and im gonna spam the crap out of them.

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For what reason?

1) you'd be giving your email (depending on the program) to them, which is what the entire thread was talking about. (you'd also be giving them your IP)
2) One computer with a few text emails aren't gonnna dent their servers, and if you were planning to send HTML ones, it'd take too long

Have fun if you wanna do it anyway.

Edited for Guido

Not to mention mail bombing is something 9 year olds who were just introduced to the internet do.

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Originally posted by Ddunk
1) you'd be giving your email to them, which is what the entire thread was talking about.

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Not necessarily... I'm pretty sure you'd not use your real e-mail when using a mail bomber

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Originally posted by Ddunk
2) One computer with a few text emails aren't gonnna dent their servers, and if you were planning to send HTML ones, it'd take too long

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Many text mails are more likely to hang up a server a bit more than less, bigger e-mails. That's my uneducated guess, at least. If anything, at least, their mail crawler will take longer to finish the process. Ahh, revenge!

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Originally posted by Ash_
JA, you did do a chain letter . You sent it to -dt-, then he forwarded it onto me. and i... blah blah blah. don't you think that maybe someone along the line got this chain letter (the one where you tell all these things about yourself) with all CC and BCC email addresses. maybe yours was one . the internet isn't 100% fake

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Ya but that was from a different mail account
I knew he would forward it to u and that was the only one i think that i sent to him ... other joke mails i talk to ppl about on msn so no mails
And thats the reason why i delete previous Cc's and bcc's be4 sending the mail to others hence if it goes into the hands of a spam bot eventually then other ppl wont suffer

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Originally posted by Guido
Many text mails are more likely to hang up a server a bit more than less, bigger e-mails. That's my uneducated guess, at least. If anything, at least, their mail crawler will take longer to finish the process. Ahh, revenge!

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Ya i think ur uneducated guess mabbe right
Guido <3 revenge

you could quickly make a script that would create loads of fake e-mail addresses, and then put it all into an e-mail and send it to them.