Ok, How do a spammer get your email address? Well, he goes to a PUBLIC source like THE INTERNET and GET IT.
If you make it PUBLIC, you are subjected to the rules of being PUBLIC, aren't you? I repeat: If you are an individual, it's the website responsability to make your email address private. To do so, if you want to receive publicity from that forum, your email address doesn't have to appear listed and the sender must do it via a CGI program to conceal your address. Claim for your Right for Privacy and if they don't give it to you, don't leave your address. And about your comments: Anybody is going to scrawl your house with graffiti. You can defend your property, even with weapons (only US). But we are talking about mailboxes so let's don't go beyond the limits of the Reality. Alfredo G�mez ----- Mensaje original ----- De: "Howard Lee Harkness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Enviado: jueves, 23 de mayo de 2002 17:08 Asunto: Re: [spamcon-general] Fraud involving my domain name - any action I can take? On Wed, 22 May 2002 01:45:52 +0200, you wrote: >So, summarizing, if you receive an email from somebody and you don't want >it, you have to ask for an unsubscription. Pay attention on how to >unsubscribe, because many of us don't follow the instructions properly and >the email sent is going to be read by a machine, not a person, so if the >email says "send a message with the word REMOVE to the address >[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and you send "Hi, very nice you wrote to me. Would you please >to unsubscribe me. Thank you"; you are not unsubscribed then. > >If you receive many from many people, install an Anti-SPAM software. If this >doesn't work, try to remind where you left your email address and ask the >webmaster to delete your email address. If he/she/it doesn't do it, then sue >(whatever). If you have thousands of emails, then change your email address >and send a letter to your contacts informing them that your email address. >Next time, take more care where you leave your email address and see if the >site has Privacy Rules. > >Hope it is useful >Comments welcome So, summarizing, if you don't like the 10,000 people coming to your house and littering your yard with advertisements or scrawling graffiti on the sides of your house, just carefully "opt-out" to each of the 10,000 organizations they represent, if you can find them. Be sure to very carefully follow *all* the "rules" each separate organization has for opting out of their abuse. If you do it wrong, it is your own fault if they continue. If that doesn't work, hire guards (at your own expense, of course) to defend your property. If that doesn't work, move, and don't tell anybody where you moved. Sorry, I don't buy any of this. I have no patience with attempts to blame the victim. I don't have any obligations or responsibilities to thieves/liars/spammers. They need to be deprived of their ability to send spam, whatever that takes. End Spam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> see http://law.spamcon.org for free suespammers.org email account _______________________________________________ spamcon-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.spamcon.org/mailman/listinfo/spamcon-general#subscribers Subscribe, unsubscribe, etc: Use the URL above or send "help" in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ spamcon-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.spamcon.org/mailman/listinfo/spamcon-general#subscribers Subscribe, unsubscribe, etc: Use the URL above or send "help" in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
