Someone (at http://www.ampsl.com/) sent out a spam email with the addresses of the recipeints in the mail. This meant that everyone saw who it was going to. One of many – so I deleted it as usual.
However it started to get replies. Someone decided to mail everyone with their offer. Then spam filters started relying to the list with bounce messages. Then we got angry ‘please remove me’ messages.
All of these got sent to everyone, and we seemed to reach some sort of critical mass where I must have got about 50 emails.
This used to be quite a regular occurance before people understood how to spam, but it has been years.
The last mail said this. I like it.
“After receiving numerous emails from Ampsl Intl ltd with kind offers to buy their products I felt their sales staff would not mind considering products we offer to sell so I sent our marketing info to sales@ampsl.com.
I am sure their sales team sales@ampsl.com would like to hear from all their email friends as to what we as “the ampsl email database” have to offer them “
So lets all send them something…
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