Dealing with spam (was: Micro$oft)

[Travis Roy]

Just on a side note..

Never -EVER- click on a link to be "removed" from a spam list. All this 
does is verify your address and then you'll end up on more lists.. The 
best things to do are the following.

- Send a bounce back like your email address doesn't exist
- Contact the ISP -AND- the upstream provider of the person that sent 
you the spam


On Wednesday, April 16, 2003, at 06:36 PM, Jon maddog Hall wrote:

> I received a notice from Microsoft, delivered to "membership at li.org".
> This mailing list which is strictly used for receiving inquiries about
> membership, and would never be listed as a "send me more info" address.
>
> So this email, of course, was SPAM.  Then I went to the bottom of the 
> page
> to opt out of the mailing list, and this message was there:
>
>> If you prefer not to receive future promotional e-mails of this type, 
>> please
>> click here to unsubscribe. Please note that it can take up to eight 
>> weeks to
>> update customer information in our database; therefore, you may 
>> receive e-mail
>> from us within that time period.
>
> Eight weeks for the request to be transferred from their mailbox to 
> their
> database.  This MUST be a company that can show their customers 
> leadership
> in using computers.
>
> md
> -- 
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