Re: Crapola Deluxe at Verizon

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From: Scott Dorsey
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 17:43

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Beartooth <karhunhammas@lserv.com> wrote:
>
>	I'm not hiding it -- I'm filtering it. I don't have the
>time, money, nor expertise to do any better against spammers myself
>than Br'er Rabbit against a tar baby. Standard advice last time I
>looked, to ordinary citizens with no hope of becoming hotshots, was
>to avoid or minimize all possible contact with spammers, and I do
>that. If you have what it takes to sue them, incarcerate them, or
>exterminate them electronically, strength to your arm! I don't,
>alas!

Yes, you do.

When you get a spam, read the headers, see where it came from, and complain
to them and to their upstream.  

If everyone did this, you would see spam problems going away pretty quickly.
--scott

-- 
"C'est un Nagra.  C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: va.general,dc.general
Subject: Re: Crapola Deluxe at Verizon
Date: 14 Aug 2001 13:43:38 -0400
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