Klarinet Archive - Posting 000823.txt from 1997/08

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.com>
Subj: Re: unwanted chain letter
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 15:20:54 -0400

Fred Jacobowitz wrote:
>. The only way to teach a spammer a lesson is to spam
> back. Therefore, I have sent both of these jackasses multiple forwards of
> their letter.

No, Fred, the best way most of the time is to contact:

postmaster@-----.com with the
address part of the e-mail).

Filling mailboxes with junk clogs the entire Internet with useless
bytes, something you're already complaining about.

Real spammers hide their addresses, making it difficult (if not
impossible) to track down. They also hijack other systems'
mailers (something that's real easy to do). savetrees.com is
notorious for this.

I manage the mail on sneezy and one or two other systems; if you
flooded *my* mail system without telling me that I had an abuser
on my system I'd be very upset.

A concerned SPAM-L member (the listserv for anti-spamming).
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Mark Charette Webmaster, http://sneezy.mika.com/clarinet/ - the
MIKA Systems, Inc Clarinet Info Pages . For Klarinet help, send
charette@-----.com