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cro@socrates.ed.asu.edu (C. R. Oldham) writes:

>I received an unsolicited email message from abacus@global.gwinnet.com
>today.  It was blatantly advertising the services of Abacus Global
>Support, Inc.  I thought this kind of thing was illegal--or at least
>not within the spirit of the Internet!

Same problem here. There are no written rules concerning Usenet,
the unwritten rule is that no advertisemnts are sent. I suspect
that these idiots have gathered addresses from Usenet postings,
which is very simple, and have send e-mail to a selection of them.

I've already sent them a note telling me that they pissed me off
and that I will never give any business to them.

I'm not too familiar with US law concerning the gathering of
addresses, but it is illegal to have such a database in my country.
(I mean, you can have any database you want, but you must register
that fact and than there are some rules about having to
consent to being in the database, government exempted as always).

Automating these forms of advertising is very simple and furthermore
it is receiver paid and should therefor not be tolerated.

The last paragraph of my reply read:

`` May your mailbox overflow with hate mail ''

As you probaby know, this is an old Usenet curse.

How many more people have received e-mail from Abacus Global Support?

If a large number of people has received this shit, we'd better
take a firm stance and flame these people (out of business,
if need be).

(cross-posted to news.admin.misc as that group seems appropriate too,
the original article appeared in comp.mail.misc and includes
the advertisement)

Casper