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Re: Unwanted mass mailers

#40
From: Michael Kessler
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 00:00
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----------------------------Original message----------------------------
If you are using Pegasus (for DOS or Windows), you can filter out
any mail coming from that address.


On 23 Sep 96 at 17:46, Peter T. Ryan, Academic Compu wrote:

> ----------------------------Original
> message---------------------------- Folks,
>
> My users have been recieving unwanted mail from this address:
>
> ---
>
> Return-path: <Mailer-Daemon@interramp.com>
> Received: from interramp.com (pop3.interramp.com)
>  by ULVACS.ULAVERNE.EDU (PMDF V5.0-4 #15225)
>  id <01I9QLRXK1A8AOMB6I@ULVACS.ULAVERNE.EDU> for
>  (user_id)@ULVACS.ULAVERNE.EDU; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 11:19:27 -0800
>  (PST)
> Received: from b.e.s.t. by interramp.com
> (8.6.12/SMI-4.1.3-PSI-pop-local)
>  id OAA15412; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 14:15:40 -0400
> Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 23:16:03 -0700 (PDT)
> From:
> Subject:
> To:
> Message-id: <199609211815.OAA15412@interramp.com>
> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
>
> ---
>
> I see these two addresses as where the messages are coming from:
>
> mailer-daemon@interramp.com
> pop3.interramp.com
>
> Questions:
>
> 1) How do I stop this ? Do I tell my mail system to not accept any
> mail from any address with interramp.com ? 2) How do I express my
> dissatisfication with this practice ? 3) Besides telling my users to
> delete the messages, what can _they_ do ?
>
> Thanks,
> Peter T. Ryan                        Academic Computing
> ryanp@ulvacs.ulaverne.edu            University of La Verne
> Phone: 909-593-3511 x4603            1950 3rd Street
> (Reality trips, and you are gone.)   La Verne, CA 91750


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Michael Kessler                              voice (415) 338-1662
College of Humanities                        mailto:MKessler@ceres.sfsu.edu
San Francisco State University               FAX (415) 338-7030
1600 Holloway Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94132
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Date: 1996/09/24
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