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Subject: Re: How do we stop the spam...i have one idea...anyone else ?
From: Roger Books <books @ mail . state . fl . us>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 10:09:23 -0500 (EST)
To: firewalls @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <34EEFA21 . 1FB1A365 @ DannyGumport . com>
Reply-to: Roger Books <books @ mail . state . fl . us>

> All,
>  I have also received a large number of junk emails
> that seem to be directed through greatcircle.coms mail
> gateways...seems to have been getting
> worse over the last few weeks.
>  The porn advert that was mentioned this morning was one.
>  the Talkpower.com one was a public one...
>  Seeing as we all care about security - email spam
> is a security threat... how can we all work together to
> stop the name lifters and people who send things to our whole
> list ? the Talkpower ad says to send them mail to get off their
> mailing list but it is addressed to firewalls @
 greatcircle .
  .
  .
 
> can the mast of this last do some scripting that says if there is a
> trailer to request removal that that mail get auto magically sent
> to remove firewalls from the spammers list and to not forward
> it to us otherwise innocent folks ?

>From the experiences I have had with these lists, if you send them
an "unsubscribe" they just use that as evidence their is a real
person on the other end of the address and the garbage increases.

Roger


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