🚀 go-pugleaf

Like AG129, at my site, I received this advertising trash. I am
astonished that anyone has the temerity, let alone the stupidity, to
send that message out. Quite apart from anything else, their
targetting must have been minimal - no message I have ever sent could
possibly have led them to suspect I wanted their services.

It is almost certainly illegal to send commercial advertising over the
United Kingdom's Joint Academic Network, and I expect something will
be done about it. It has also crossed my mind that the company would
certainly have to be registered under the Data Protection Act if they
were operating in the UK with such a database of personal information.
It might be the case that they have to declare such data if they are
going to use it within the UK, even if they are not based here - if
so, I doubt they have.

I sent mail to abacus@global.gwinnett.com (Cc:-ed to my local
postmaster), and it didn't bounce. Hopefully every recipient will
personally express complaint in a similar way.

Advice on any more effective action I can take against these people
would be gratefully received - I detest this practice, and would like
to see it prevented, so I'm prepared to spend a little time persuing
them...

Thanks,

--Clive.