At 12:23 PM 4/11/2001, Donna Cassano wrote: >YES, what is up with all of this spam? List management have decided that receiving spam is preferable to closing the list i.e. letting only members post. Opinions vary on this. >When I email them back asking to be taken off of their list, I get my mail >back undeliverable. Don't do it. They were undeliverable because someone complained to the ISP and the accounts were cancelled -- but if you *had* gotten the message through you would have been informing the spammers that there was a real live person at your address, which make the address worth more money to other spammers. Complain instead by forwarding the message with complete (long) headers to abuse@<all the different places that reading the long headers tells you it comes from, plus addresses like the ones you gave>. If the originating system sounds like a spammers' kingdom, don't complain there (we_spam_forever.com and suchlike <g>). >Addresses were: > lavender4696@yahoo.com > credit16@START.COM.AU David Beierl - Providence, RI http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage" '85 GL "Poor Relation" |
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