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Re: Anyone else getting this email spam?

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From: Dave Horsfall
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 00:00
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In article <4oesbe$a01@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au>,
    c9412417@lily.newcastle.edu.au (Robert Atkins) writes:

| This is beginning to really give me the shits. I got some spam from some
| loser at netcom.com (postmaster notified already) about how, for the low
| price of $300, I too could spam 20 million other net users with my
| advertising. Since then I've been the proud recipient of the following
| two messages, plus about three or four more. 

I get a better response with "abuse@netcom.com" (and "abuse@aol.com");
I guess the "postmaster" alias gets so much mail it's rarely read.

| What can you do about these morons? Like, the postmaster of
| "cyberpreneur.com" is really going to give a shit about spam from his
| site... it sounds like what the domains's for!

There are ways - find out who cyberpreneur.com's feed is, for example.

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