sending crap to see if the email address is valid is spam. it is unwanted, unsolicited, consumes resources I pay for w/o my consent. the perp could care less what they send, as long as my local mail system indicates delivery is successful. they then "harvest" the email address. if they do it twice and get an affirmative response that mail is/would be successfully delivered, ... double opt-in!! thats one thing -we- generally call spam. % Harvesting addresses isn't an email message. Its spam-related activity, % but it isn't spam. % % --Dean % % On Mon, 26 May 2003, Bill Manning wrote: % % > % There are 3 types of email that we generally call spam: % > % > who are "we"? % > % > type 4: harvesting/collecting "working" email addresses to be re-sold. % > % > % > --bill % > Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and % > certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise). % > % -- --bill Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise).