On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 15:09:07 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
> Further to my request for assistance in dealing with this crap without
> paying a lawyer, I received these duplicates of the subscription message
> that I had forwarded with only the last line changed as follows:
> Subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] to webmonkey.
> Subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] to webmonkey-frontdoor.
> Subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] to wired-news.
> Subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] to wn_ascii.
> Needless to say I had NOT (and will not) subscribed to any of these.
> Help ?
Hello Clarence:
You have my sympathy!
Many of the SPAM messages I am receiving these days begin with a
paragraph saying "Thank you for your recent posting....", etc.
Many of them end with a paragraph saying some words to the efect that this
message is being sent to me to thank me for the interest I expressed in my
recent posting on some web service that I never even heard of and in which
I would not possibly have any interest. I suppose the spammers are now
preparing forged postings from us in an attempt to prove that their SPAM
is not unsolicited.
The time will surely come when the spammers are dealt with by a committee
of outraged and well organized anonymous citizens. I hope the citizens
should act judiciously and I hope their noble efforts will not backfire
and I hope nobody will ever be able to identify any of them <VBG>.
All the best,
Sam Heywood
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