Re: Mail with no purpose?

On 1-apr-04, at 18:49, Michel Py wrote:

In other words: if you're already to the point where you are using a text-mode mail client or disabling HTML and/or other stuff in a GUI client, you are no loss to the spammer if your email does not confirm as valid (because you would not even read it nor buy any of their crud in the first place).

So what you're saying is that these validation schemes are a good thing?