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In article <6f6hoc$jre@bcarh8ab.bnr.ca>,
Chris Lewis <clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca> wrote:
>In article <6f2u1f$eg6@freenet-news.carleton.ca>,
>Andrew Nellis <bs904@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote:

>>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.

>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.

H'm.  I just checked, and the server doesn't appear to be there anymore...
What a shame...

The traceroute dies at geo.net.  It's possible that they're in the middle
of moving to another ISP.  Or, it's also possible that later complaints
arriving at galaxy-net caused them to move up the termination date rather
abruptly.

Either way, they're not there right now.

If it does come back, it will be interesting to see whether they've
kept our addresses out of it.
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