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Rob Hall (rob@ottawa.net) wrote:
: Perpetuating the problem of junk email by re-emailing garbage is not the 
: answer.  Education of how wrong their actions are is probably a more 
: appropriate response.

I, myself, tend to send the mail back to the junk mailer as well as root, 
postmaster and abuse at the same site.  I do this the first time the junk 
e-mail arrives.  Usually the junk e-mailer never mails back.  

One ISP in particular has multiple junk e-mailers that are making me think 
that why not just ignore all e-mail from that service.  There are other ISP's 
as well as companies that specialize in junk e-mail - all of which could be 
ignored.

: Most of the time the offender is the client of the ISP, not the ISP.  To punish 
: the ISP and 'shut down their servers' is not appropriate behavior on the Net 
: anymore than junk email is.

: Rob.

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This method of ignoring all mail from an ISP or a client of an ISP 
(company) would put the waste on the sender's end.  It would also get 
ISP's and companies to take action on the junk e-mail.  Would an ISP want 
to be labeled as a place for junk e-mailers?  Would an ISP want mail 
from their places ignored?  For both questions: probably not.

Kirk Brown