[NTLUG:Discuss] But I don't WANT spam!

[Mike Hart]

.... "You could try the black beans, egg, and spam, there's not much spam in that."

When you report spam, the investigation includes the login location for account holder of the email at the time the email was sent.  Usually the login occured from China or Russia (most account hacks like this do).   In these cases the email is a nuisance, but it is not illegal.  US law does not apply in those locations, and no similar law exists to enforce.  These are all automatic nowdays and filtered out by machine. 

When you reply to spam and include the offending email quoted in its entirety, the new message becomes a new spam.  This is especially true and expensive when "reply all" is going to a large group of people.  The investigation will include 'where did it come from' and if you were logged in from within the US,  then the email is illegal.   Right after can-spam went into effect, we had corporate training on this, and were told over and over don't reply. 

As to why the change in rate... this last week in Yahoo, I was involuntarily upgraded to the 'new' Yahoo email, which I suspect are now run on hotmail servers instead of linux.   If this is true, it would  explain why there is a jump in hacked accounts. (no flame intended.) 

--- On Sat, 5/14/11, Gilbert Morrow <gkfmorrow at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Gilbert Morrow <gkfmorrow at gmail.com>

On the last one I did "report spam" in gmail.

Sent from the original Moto Droid.