Brought to you this hour by

Advertising and Web Hosting on Woodwind.Org!

Klarinet Archive - Posting 000092.txt from 1995/11

From: "Lorne G. Buick" <mcheramy@-----.CA>
Subj: Re: Piotr Michalowski's advice re spams
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 09:16:43 -0500

>I have a simple way of dealing with phone solicitors. I have an iron rule
>that I will not deal with them, and if I already have any dealings with
>the company, I tell them that the next time anyone call I will cancel all
>contributions, etc, no matter how noble the cause. I would urge everyone
>to adopt the same principle for all such junk email that is now being
>spread through mailing groups. Piotr
>

The only problem with this is that many of the spams and assorted junk
email are sent with forged return addresses. Thus if you reply to them you
just end up causing further waste of bandwidth and tying up systems of
innocent victims. I've given up replying to them- I just hit the delete
key...