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Subject: Re: Mailing list spammer spams List-Managers mailing list!
From: Bill . Houle @ SanDiegoCA . NCR . COM (Bill Houle)
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 09:21:07 -0800
To: "Mark E. Taylor" <met @ mindspring . com>, "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg @ monkeys . com>
Cc: List-Managers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: "Mark E. Taylor" <met@mindspring.com> Re: Mailing list spammer spams List-Managers mailing list! (Mar 25, 7:56pm)

On Mar 25,  7:56pm, "Mark E. Taylor" wrote:
} =========
} Dear Sir or Madam,
} 
} Thank you for reporting the unsolicited commercial e-mail that you
} recently received.
} 
} We have cancelled the sender's account for complaints of spam, which
} violate(s) our Terms & Conditions Agreement.
} 
} ======
} Now that is what I call effective spam blocking!

The problem with lists getting spammed means that that list address
is now on spam lists being used by multiple bulk mail distributors
-- (68 million addresses for only $9.95!). So you can complain till
you are blue in the face to get one perpetrator ousted, but other
accounts will always pop up using this common list.

majordomo-workers and -users was first hit about 2 months ago, and
now it seems we are averaging 3 per week. The only way this can be 
stopped is to either make the lists restrict_post'ed or put some 
sendmail anti-spam actions on the GreatCircle server. As a list 
member (not owner), I'm getting sick of it and will accept any 
solution to make it stop.

--bill



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