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Subject: Re: centra.com in message ads?
From: "Linda B. Merims" <lbm @ ici . net>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 07:32:04 -0400 (EDT)
To: List-Managers @ GreatCircle . COM

Ken Bourbeau <bourbeau@worldpath.net> wrote:

>Ok. Here's a new one on me. Fellow posted to the Maria McKee mailinglist
and his
>signature had the following banner. The mail came from centra.com
>
>Are the free email services now putting ads in the BODY of outgoing messages?
>
>    <MENTOS AD>

My listserver has a firm "no ads" policy.  I had to tell the
people from hotmail.com, all of whose posts were coming in with:

---------------------------------------------------------
Get Your *Web-Based* Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
---------------------------------------------------------

that they either had to turn this off (they can't), or find a
new ISP.  If these keep coming in, I'll have to disallow
subscribers from hotmail altogether.

I wrote to the comments@hotmail.com address about it, explaining
that it was turning into a spam-by-proxy when their clients
subscribe to a listserver.  No response.

Linda B. Merims
MorganList Administrator
listmaster@morganlist.org



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