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Re: WE MASS E-MAIL YOUR AD TO 900K - $59

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From: Colin R. Leech
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 00:00
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Resume's (sales@shop.net) writes:
> In article <50mp9o$l26@hermes.dciem.dnd.ca>, king@hermes.dciem.dnd.ca says...
>>I return ALL junk e-mail, cc'ing the postmaster and root at the originating
>>site. I keep track of where this stuff comes from and if it happens again I
>>may take drastic action, like remailing core dumps through anonymous
>>servers, or some such.
> 
> Now there is an inteligent answer to the problem.  You are sending tons of 
> garbage to root and postmasters tying up resources on some anonymous server in 
> the process.

I view this as a last resort. First, I would complain politely to the
postmaster of the offending system. If no action is taken, and the
spamming continues, *then* the gloves can come off and you can do
whatever's necessary to stop it. Remember that Canter and Siegel's ISP
dumped them, with a little encouragement from the rest of us. :-)


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#####    |\^/|     Colin R. Leech     ag414 or crleech@freenet.carleton.ca
##### _|\|   |/|_  Civil engineer by training, transport planner by choice.
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From: ag414@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Colin R. Leech)
Subject: Re: WE MASS E-MAIL YOUR AD TO 900K - $59
Date: 1996/09/09
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