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In article <6f2u1f$eg6@freenet-news.carleton.ca>,
Andrew Nellis <bs904@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote:
>
>Ian W. Douglas (wild.spam@cyberus.ca) writes:
>>>http://www.freesoftware.net/ca.ml
>> 
>> Anyone have any thoughts on how we might get ourselves taken off this
>> huge list?
>
>You can't.  There is no known way to get yourself removed from a spamming
>list once you're on it.  And even if you could, the damage is already
>done.  Any spammer who wants it has already downloaded those lists.

Hi Andrew,

Maybe not.  It doesn't often work, but it seems to have this time:

I just sent a sternly worded "company official" cease-and-desist message
to the web site's contact address, and their ISP (galaxy-net.com) demanding
that at a minimum, all of our addresses be removed forthwith (we have
over 7000 on two of their lists alone).

The VP of Galaxy-net just said, in part:

|The owner of the site has been contacted and is complying with
|respect to your address concerns.
|In addition we have given the client a 30 day notice to find a new
|hosting company for freesoftware.net.
|If you have any further questions please feel free to call.

>If you'd like to make sure the Canadian Civil Liberties Association
>doesn't make a similar fuck-up, their e-mail address is:

>                       ccla@ilap.com

>I have spoken to them on the phone, and currently they have no policy
>regarding junk e-mail.  Please take the time to hand them a clue.

By the by, the Canadian Direct Marketting Association doesn't appear
to need a cluestick - their ethics document now contains a "do not
email spam" people clause.
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