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From Ramona===
Dear Webby,
I remember that you once warned against clicking on opt-out
or remove lines in spam, but realized that I forgot the
reasons when I tried to explain it to a friend. I need a
refresher course on that.
Thanks
Ramona

Dear Ramona
There are two reasons for not doing that:
1) Only legitimate newsletters honor unsubscribes and
opt-outs and actually dump your address. Spammers add
your address as a "recently verified live address" to
address CD's that they sell to other spammers.
2) A bug in Internet Explorer and in older versions of
Microsoft Office allows spammers to use your click on the
purported "opt-out" link to download a trojan back-door into
your computer. Then they use your computer as a spam
machine whenever your screen saver comes on.

The only key that is safe for all spam is the DELETE key.
If it is something that shows up more than once, use
MailWasher to make a filter to dump it without showing it.

Have FUN!
DearWebby