Re: Abuse-Advice Required

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From: dave
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 00:00

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On Wed, 10 May 2000 Oz In article <Zp7jHBAGlYG5EwM9@upthorpe.demon.co.uk
>, Oz <Oz@upthorpe.demon.co.uk> writes
>In article <bpsihs03vg3erl8mjkr41iicgnjj1mpua6@4ax.com>, Mark Schiffmann
><mark11@btinternet.com> writes
>>On Wed, 10 May 2000 09:15:14 +0100, Oz <Oz@upthorpe.demon.co.uk>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>I'm not sure if you are referring to the addressee or something else.
>>>I long since set tp to reject any posts not posted to Oz@, oz@, OZ@ for
>>>delivery here. It's a simple solution that works very well.
>>
>>If, as I suspect you get mail via SMTP, you should add postmaster@ to
>>that rule (see Demons T&C). Mind you, I don't suppose the Internet
>>will collapse if you don't bother ;-).
>
>Ah. Good point. 
>
>OTOH it saves me deleting those things posted to postmaster .....  :-)
>
In four years (mostly with Demon :) I have had just one item of UCE
addressed to webmaster@ (and that from a Demon TAM user using OE with no
attempt at munged headers) and none addressed to postmaster@. Apparently
these addresses are considered generally too risky to abuse.

-- 
dave d.

                 http://www.stejonda.freeuk.com/

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From: dave <news2k03@stejonda.freeuk.com>
Subject: Re: Abuse-Advice Required
Date: 2000/05/11
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