Are you getting frustrated with a flood of unwanted offensive emails that you never asked for being sent to your private email address? This is referred to as junk e-mail, Spam, unsolicited e-mail etc... The problem is that it's a huge waste of your time, it's an invasion of your privacy, and worse, some junk mail is plain disgusting and ugly.
Previous Politech message:
"Is anti-spam service MailWiper.com resorting to... spamming?" http://www.politechbot.com/p-04542.html
-Declan
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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:23:24 -0500 From: Rich Kulawiec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Stephen Whitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: FC: Is anti-spam service MailWiper.com resorting to... spamming?
> I received spam today advertising an anti-spam tool, called mailwiper.com.
Known spammer; see, for example:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=mailwiper&btnG=Google+Search&meta=group%3Dnews.admin.net-abuse.email
These are just spammers trying to take advantage of the situation to make a fast buck. (And they're not the only ones.) There are much better -- and non-spamvertized -- pieces of software out there like bogofilter, SpamAssassin, and SpamBouncer.
---Rsk
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 15:49:03 +0530 From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: FC: Is anti-spam service MailWiper.com resorting to... spamming?
Declan McCullagh [13/03/03 01:19 -0500]: > The spamhouse sending the spam and running the spamvertised website is > values-your-way.com.
FYI - http://spamhaus.org/SBL/sbl.lasso?query=SBL7242
Values-Your-Way's IP space seems to be already listed in the spamhaus block list (sbl)
srs
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