Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] spam
From: Chris Griffin (cgriffin@websales.com)
Date: Fri Dec 05 1997 - 21:58:17 EST
>
>> From: John Barry -Technician <John.Barry@tees.ac.uk>
>> Date: Tue, 2 Dec 97 13:38:21 GMT
>> To: netatalk-admins@umich.edu
>> Subject: [netatalk-admins] spam
>>
>> Hi,
>> I've just mailed the dickhead who spammed the list about 10 copies of the
>> offending mail, might I suggest others do the same.
>> meanwhile I shall track down the ISP and complain formerly to them :)
>
>*BAD* *IDEA*
>Doing that simply re-inforces the idea that it works. It also gives
>the spammer an "accurate" address on you, to add to their list.
snip YES!!
There are a lot of spammers that use other systems and bogus return
address. I was hit recently with a ton of bad address replys because
someone had spammed with my domain as the return address. It can take
some good investigation to find the real sender.
>"DOS Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and
>millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million
>machines
>in use worldwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that
>cockroaches
>are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a
>higher life form."
> -New York Times, November 26, 1991
>
The software package said "For use with Window 95 or better." So I bought
a Macintosh!
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