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Article #447Re: WE MASS E-MAIL YOUR AD TO 900K - $59
From: Colin R. Leech
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 00:00
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Resume's (sales@shop.net) writes: > In article <50mp9o$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. :-) -- ##### |\^/| Colin R. Leech ag414 or crleech@freenet.carleton.ca ##### _|\| |/|_ Civil engineer by training, transport planner by choice. ##### > < Opinions are my own. Consider them shareware if you want. ##### >_./|\._< "If you can't return a favour, pass it on." - A.L. Brown
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 105a5a,89a5bd8a8c1500c5 X-Google-Attributes: gid105a5a,public X-Google-Thread: 10aaae,b0b8499790f0963a X-Google-Attributes: gid10aaae,public From: ag414@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Colin R. Leech) Subject: Re: WE MASS E-MAIL YOUR AD TO 900K - $59 Date: 1996/09/09 Message-ID: <5103pk$pdh@freenet-news.carleton.ca> X-Deja-AN: 179378504 sender: ag414@freenet2.carleton.ca (Colin R. Leech) references: <50m0e5$a6m@news-e2c.gnn.com> <50mb3c$8nu@freenet-news.carleton.ca> <50mp9o$l26@hermes.dciem.dnd.ca> <50nigm$65s@nic.ott.hookup.net> organization: The National Capital FreeNet reply-to: ag414@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Colin R. Leech) newsgroups: ott.online,can.infohighway