At 02:43 PM 3/16/99 -0600, you wrote:
>They will probably use your call to confirm that you are receiving the spam,
>and may attempt to obtain further demographic information over the phone.
>They can then market your email address to other spammers for a good price.
That is correct. Following spammers "remove" instructions almost always
results in more spam, not less, because they use it to verify your email
address is valid.
In the case of the spam sent to the Mersenne list, it's the address of the list
itself that would need to be removed. More effective will be to take the
account
which sent it to the list and block it. The mailing list shouldn't allow
anyone
but members of the list to post, so killing their membership to the list should
keep them from continuing.
>DejaNews has a service which provides an email address for use with USENET
>groups.
It's a web-based email address, and can be used for any purpose, not just for
Usenet. I used one for awhile, and now, months later, it still receives spam
emails almost every day. They may filter or block some spam, but not much.
Jason posted...
>The original spam came from a uunet IP address, and I complained to
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] the day I got the ad.
UU.net is probably the biggest provider of spam services online today. Almost
every day, in the NANAE newsgroup, there are complaints about UUnet spam.
Sending them a complaint *might* help, but I wouldn't count on it.
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