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Re: Someone's using my address for spam

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From: Mike Pellatt
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 00:00
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On Wed, 08 Nov 2000 23:57:56 GMT, Tim Willets
<news1@polka.redowa.co.uk> wrote:
>On 9 Nov 2000 00:28:28 +1200, Nick FitzGerald <nick@virus-l.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>>That means using services like the various MAPS lists
>>and/or ORBS to reject SMTP connections.  If Demon does that, it saves
>>itself and therefore its customers a whole raft of expenses it *and
>>we* do not need.
>
>It is also likely to bounce mail that is not UCE/UBE. That mail is likely
>to be important.

Someone else (it might even have been the same person) in this
debate said he'd be quite happy for important email to be bounced
as long as it stopped him getting SPAM,

So, of course he wouldn't complain if that job offer of a network
manager at a nice big salary in the City of London never arrived.

Oh, no.

-- 
Mike Pellatt
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From: newsfrom@pellatt.co.uk (Mike Pellatt)
Subject: Re: Someone's using my address for spam
Date: 2000/11/09
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