I recently got a “newsletter” from somewhere which I
had never signed up for a newsletter. Now, I use a
junk account for all my web forms and newsletters
and such, and I forward these to my real, personal
account. When I start getting too much spam, I
throw away that account and start a new one, all the
while keeping my real one clean for family and
friends.
Well, I opened this “newsletter” because it seemed
catered to my interests, but it turned out to be
crap like normal. Well right after that, there was
something in my outbox… I looked and it was
a “read receipt” headed right back to the company,
with my legit address on it. Luckily I had Outlook
set to send messages only when I tell it to, because
if it had gone through, the flood would begin.
I just thought the viewers might like to know about
this, in case they use shill accounts forwarded to a
clean one too, or to set it to “never send a read
receipt”.