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Well usually when you contact a company through their contact e-mail you get response from a concrete person and their e-mail you can save in your address book.
by bonzoq 14y ago
Well usually when you contact a company through their contact e-mail you get response from a concrete person and their e-mail you can save in your address book. Also, if someone still did that and their message wouldn't get through, they'd get a message with the valid address to contact and so would the company be informed on the contact attempts.
Although the word startup is broadly abused these days, I used this because I could provide this service (the piece of code that changes e-mail, redirections, auto-responses and so on) and charge for it.
- pavel_lishin 14y ago> Also, if someone still did that and their message wouldn't get through, they'd get a message with the valid address to contact and so would the company be informed on the contact attempts. So if someone sent an outdated contact address a piece of spam, the system would reply back with the correct up-to-date e-mail address to which they could then send the spam?
- bonzoq 14y agoExactly, but that would be useless for a bot sending spam, wouldn't it?
- pavel_lishin 14y agoWhat? It would give them a current, working e-mail address to send more spam to.
- bonzoq 14y agoThey could just as well look it up on the company website. It's just that bots just send spam to the email addresses they have on a list.