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4 posts by 4 people · 28 Feb 1997 - 05 Mar 1997

Kel 28 Feb 1997#357764
Sorry bout this question but I don't know the proper NG for this. How the hell do so many people get my e-mail address and then send me tons of junk mail. And how can I stop this from happening? Thanks. -- Let's pray there's intelligent life somewhere up there in space, Cause there aint' none here! Kel Calgary, Alberta CANADA
co.. 02 Mar 1997#357938
: Sorry bout this question but I don't know the proper NG for this. How : the hell do so many people get my e-mail address and then send me tons : of junk mail. And how can I stop this from happening? ...well, 50+ more span companies have JUST got your address for their devient purposes... ...and now mine as well :( __o _-\<,_ Cosmo Potapoff
Jim Sokolo 02 Mar 1997#357939
Quoted text (8 lines)>: Sorry bout this question but I don't know the proper NG for this. How >: the hell do so many people get my e-mail address and then send me tons >: of junk mail. And how can I stop this from happening? >...well, 50+ more span companies have JUST got your address for their >devient purposes... >...and now mine as well :(
(They've already all got mine, and I try to make them sorry everytime they send me mail... :-) ) Seriously, DO NOT IGNORE spam e-mail. EVERYTIME you get one, send a copy of the entire e-mail to the postmaster at the originating site. (If the originating site appears to be owned and operated by the ***head who sent you the mail, send a copy of the mail to the postmaster at the next upstream site...) When the postmasters get enough complaints (and the sys-admins get tired of rebooted servers that have been mail-bombed), the user's account usually gets revoked. ---Jim Sokoloff
>Seriously, DO NOT IGNORE spam e-mail. EVERYTIME you get one, send a >copy of the entire e-mail to the postmaster at the originating site. Bad move. If you feel that you really must follow up spam then send a copy of the headers ONLY to the postmaster. 99 times out of 100 it is not the postmaster's fault that a user is abusing his system. Be considerate, he's human like the rest of us and can just as easily act on the headers as a copy of the whole email. Also, if the postmaster is that 1 out of 100, you've just found yourself on spam lists forever - they now know that the address they are sending to is a real one for an active account.... ;-(( Cheers, Richard

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