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DragonNOA1

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Question from the book:

Melanie has become frustrated with all of the spam email she receives. Although she will never be completely rid of spam, what TWO courses of action can she take that would best reduce the amount she receives?

A) Tell her network admin to block all incoming spam email at the email server.

B) Disable cookies in her web browser

C) Send threatening emails back to the people sending spam email.

D) Scan the emails to see if there is a "remove" option to be removed from the mailing list.

E) There is nothing Melanie can do, spam is just a fact of life on the Internet.

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The book doesn't give consistent answers. I've narrowed it down to what the book wants, I think it's B & D. But how would disabling cookies even change the amount of spam you get?
 
Are you joking?

Hmmmmmmmmm, I'm gonna hazard a guess a A & B. Considering C, D, E are idiotic options I'll rest assured I'm correct.

For the education, and please feel free to discuss if you disagree with these points:

A. This is the easiest for Melanie since she doesn't actually have to do anything. The network admin should be professional and know what he/she is doing, and has more access to the server to be affective.

B. Another very good and easy thing to do. That's how my browser is set.

C. Never do this. The spammer's really don't care, the address is probably not even run by a human anyway, and you've just verified to them that they were reaching a real person which is all they care about.

D. Same as above, the 'remove' option is really only there to verify the authenticity of your email address.

E. Pessimistically this is kind of true, but not really because there are things you can do, or mostly things you can 'not do'.
 
Melanie's a whore...tell her to stop signing up for free trials of diet pills.
 
Well the book says that:

A) wouldn't really work b/c of the volume of spam and that spammers change their addresses all the time. Mentions you can't block them all but the question isn't about blocking them all. Stupid book.

B) book says this is right b/c html emails contain cookies and can track you. As of right now tho I get more text spam emails thats why I was confused on how disabling cookies would actually help

C) Nope

D) Book says it works from legitamite companies and usually removes you from spam as well, but then it is sold to someone else... so while it works, it doesn't really work fully

E) since two answers are required just choosing this means you lose


So see what I mean. Answer B is right, but the question asks for one more. Either A or D. Book says B&D (I think), while my first guess is A&B.
 
I would have said A&E

B=WTF.. while a good idea.. spammers dont get your email address from the cookie unless you've type'd it into the site to begin with and then only if they write it to the cookie
 
A) is the only effective one in the real world (the heck with what the book says) out of the choices listed.
 
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