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Re: Off topic: Spammers & Dejanews



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I believe that the free e-mail provided by my-dejanews.com has a very
comprehensive list of all know bulk e-mailers, whose messages are
filtered_out

cheers

-----Original Message-----
From: Allan Kaminsky <allank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Gaius Marius <maximus@xxxxxxxxxxx>; Omega List <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 11, &Sgr;&egr;&pgr;&tgr;&egr;&mgr;&bgr;&rgr;&iacgr;&ogr;&ugr; 1998 2:39 &pgr;&mgr;
Subject: Re: Off topic: Spammers


>At 06:13 PM 9/10/98 -0400, Gaius Marius wrote:
>>I'm getting spammed almost every day (almost every hour recently) since I
>>got this account (Sept. 1, 1998) by every moron who has some financial
>>interest/trading system/services he wants to sell. All I did was made 2
post
>>to Misc. Invest. Futures within the last 2 weeks.
><snip>
>
>Although I use an unprotected address on controlled lists such as this,
>when posting to a USENET group, my address is modified by including
>*NoSpam* in it. Someone who wishes to Email me directly can do so by a
>simple modification of the address. However, the programs that
>automatically strip the address of all posters to a group don't get a
>usable address.
>
>For more on how to fight the SPAMmer's, see the SPAM-L FAQ at
>
>http://oasis.ot.com/~dmuth/spam-l/
>
>Allan
>
>"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure." - Earl Wilson
>