Net-savvy quiz

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You receive an obnoxious spam that was sent to a single address, newsletter@foo.com (not its real address). It's from newsletter-admin@foo.com. You have never heard of foo.com and are not a subscriber to the newsletter. What do you do?

  1. Ignore it.
  2. Send email to newsletter-admin@foo.com and postmaster@foo.com complaining about it.
  3. Send angry email to newsletter@foo.com saying "TAKE ME OFF YOUR LIST!" (Include a string of expletives.)
  4. Wait until someone else has sent angry email to newsletter@foo.com, and when that angry mail shows up in your emailbox, send your own email to newsletter@foo.com saying "Me too!"

I don't really expect most people to be Net-savvy. But I'd kind of expect most people to be able to distinguish between the "From" and "To" lines, and to guess that "From" is the address of the person something is from, and that "To" is the address that the mail was sent to.

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