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From: cfbd@southern.co.nz (Colin Douthwaite)
Subject: Re: SPAMMINGS: ARGH!
Date: 1997/07/16
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Seal do Mar (l33812@alfa.ist.utl.pt) wrote:

>Lars Hansen   > ("LarsHansen<"@.) wrote:
>
>> What you are saying is, we should leave the spam alone for now? Fine
>> with me, it's much less effort anyway :)
>> I was just about to cancel 20 posts, but I think I'll just mark them as
>> 'read'.

The reason for the big increase in Spam is that the Anti-Spam people had
a Moratorium and turned off their filters which took out the spam for a few
days trial...resulting in a massive increase.


>	Ok ... I have a suggestion ... why don't we start looking at this like
>our own mailbox? Most everytime i receive a spam  mail in my mailbox I forward
>it to the postmaster of the domain in the message header. If everyday everyone
>of us would forward one of this spams to their respective postmasters I bet
>some acounts would start to be canceled ... and maybe we should leave those
>important emails (like whitehouse) to use when things like lists of email are
>anounced here to be sold in order to make more spam!
>
>	what do you think? that is if there is no more good ideias ...


Anyone keen to fight Spam needs to know what they are doing or they
can create more trouble.

Those people who _really_ want to get into the Anti-spam War should 
subscribe to and read the following newsgroups: 

       news.admin.announce
       news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins
       news.admin.net-abuse.email
       news.admin.net-abuse.policy
       news.admin.net-abuse.sightings
       news.admin.net-abuse.usenet



              Fighting Email Spam:


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                  -David Bourgin-  


Bye,