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Article #401Re: Someone's using my address for spam
From: Mike Pellatt
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 14:22
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 14:22
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On 3 Nov 2000 11:48:38 GMT, bogus address <bogus@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote: >: and sign the agreement in blood, the whinging of the first customer >: to find an important email had been bounced by the filters would be >: deafening > >My present filters sometimes do delete significant emails. SMTP isn't >sophisticated enough to do otherwise. I can live with that, I'd rather >lose a few real messages than get spam. Whereas most people (particularly those whose livelihoods depend on such emails) would rather get spam than lose a few real messages. Would you be happy if the postman, following what he believed to be your instructions, threw away that �100,000 cheque from ERNIE along with all your junk mail ?? I thought not. -- Mike Pellatt
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: fc20b,f2cb002bbe07b056 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc20b,public X-Google-Thread: fad9d,6f04be2e26fee8d1 X-Google-Attributes: gidfad9d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-11-03 06:27:11 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!hermes.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!news.tele.dk!130.133.1.3!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!212.187.143.245!not-for-mail From: newsfrom@pellatt.co.uk (Mike Pellatt) Newsgroups: uk.comp.sys.mac,demon.service Subject: Re: Someone's using my address for spam Date: 3 Nov 2000 14:22:15 GMT Organization: Nah Lines: 22 Message-ID: <slrn905ign.a4v.newsfrom@lurch.pellatt.co.uk> References: <021120000903373203%andy@dance.demon.co.uk> <6766@purr.demon.co.uk> <B627B4789668161576@cara.demon.co.uk> <6773@purr.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: mike@pellatt.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.187.143.245 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 973261629 311760 212.187.143.245 (16 [28571]) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (Linux)