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Deepak Jain wrote: Can someone explain to me (publicly or privately) why someone would send spam with no product to sell, no position to pitch, nothing except text designed to get by a spam filter -- without even HTML to KNOW it got by a spam filter..

Gregory Hicks wrote It is a probe to verify the address. since it did not bounce, the address is verified.

Old-school; nowadays probes to measure the real bounce rate are real text, not just a bunch of words. I got one recently thanking me for a wonderful week-end... Michel.