> Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 20:05:55 -0500 (CDT)
> From: "Jerome S. Colburn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Sorry I didn't speak up sooner about this. Whatever we do, don't reply
> to what appears to be the sending address. That tells the spammers
> there's a live address to send to, and they can sell the address to other
> spammers. Five days later, instead of genealogical traces, it's child
> pornography from the Philippines. I sent that one to the abuse and
> postmaster accounts at jetlink.com.ph and the relay site in Sweden (where
> there turns out to be no abuse account), but *not* to the originator.
Thanks for the hint. The address in question was a fake.
As I see the amount of spam in the list is drastically increasing.
So I concentrate on installing a newer version of majordomo which
may help a little bit by allowing posting to the list only for
list members, and on removing the spam from the archives.
I hope that there are some (enough) members on the list who complain
at postmaster@<relay> or abuse@<sending-mta> or similar addresses.
I'll no longer do such actions.
-- Werner
