On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 06:06:35PM -0700, krepta at juno.com wrote:
> Well I personaly think it that unsolicited junk email should be stoped. 
> I like the ones that with instructions on how to get your email account
> taken off their lists by sending a single, simple email message.

You might, until you discover that the real motive behind many of those
"remove me" emails is to confirm that an email address is active, which
increases its value when selling it to other spammers.

That means that you actually end up getting *more* spam by trying to get
them to remove you.

Ian.

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Ian Clarke                                        ian at freenetproject.org
Founder & Coordinator, The Freenet Project    http://freenetproject.org/
Chief Technology Officer, Uprizer Inc.           http://www.uprizer.com/
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