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Annoying no-purpose E-Mails
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Join Date: Feb 2002
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One in a while I get emails like the following:
sender: dabing2001@0451.com
subject: none
Message: Good day, commander
There's no html or any images or anything else in those mails, just "Good day, commander" and that's it. What purpose does such an email fulfill? Is it only to check whether the adress is real or not?
I'm confused.
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my guess is that it's spam. they're expecting you to wonder what it's about and reply.
-r.
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I didn't think of the option that anyone would actually reply. 
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Maybe it's checking the validity of your address. Or just one of your minions* wanting to get on the right side of you.
(* what do you mean, you don't have minions? What kind of man are you?)
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Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
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Addicted to MacNN 
Join Date: Jul 2005
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For every 100 e-mails, my "spam/real e-mail" ratio is approximately 97/3.

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for spam/email, i'm currently batting 0/100. not bad.
-r.
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Originally Posted by rjenkinson
for spam/email, i'm currently batting 0/100. not bad.
-r.
Man, sorry to hear that you don't have any mail account… 
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Some that i get like that are determined to be a virus and so locked.
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"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." Winston Churchill
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BTW, WD, this just supports the theory that you are actually a bot:

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Addicted to MacNN 
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Originally Posted by andreas_g4
Man, sorry to hear that you don't have any mail account…
got three. no spam, not even with my gmail account.
-r.
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Join Date: Jun 2005
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Originally Posted by rjenkinson
for spam/email, i'm currently batting 0/100. not bad.
-r.
Gentlemen, I hereby expose this man for what he really is: John C. Dvorak
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