Re: *** ADMIN: Spam

["John Earl" <john.earl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David,

The easiest way for us to "complain with our budgets" is to publish a list
of known spamming companies.  They are easy enough to spot, just post a
couple of messages to the list with an email address that has never been
used anywhere else.

Any direct email that is received to that account is sent from a spammer who
mines this list.  A "hall of shame" page on midrange.com would then be in
order.

jte

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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Gibbs" <david@midrange.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 7:06 PM
Subject: *** ADMIN: Spam


> Folks:
>
> It's come to my attention that some AS400 / iSeries vendors have, once
> again, been mining midrange.com mailing lists for email addresses.
>
> Unforunately, often there is nothing I can do to stop this unless there is
> clear indication of the identify of the subscriber.
>
> My suggestion is two fold ...
>
> 1. Complain with your budgets ... simply refuse to do business with the
> vendor in question.
>
> 2. Complain to the vendors ISP.  A good resource for this is
www.spamcop.net.
>
> I am investigating a way to completely spam-proof all messages on the
> mailing lists ... it won't be a perfect solution, but it will be
> adequate.  Unforunately, it's also not very easy ... so it will take quite
> some time to implement.  For those of you interested, it will be based on
> the Tagged Message Delivery Agent (TMDA).  Information can be found at
> http://tmda.net.
>
> david
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