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I generally try to reply to the spam and ask to be removed from there mailing list even if they don't have that option. Quite often this will get me nothing more than a second copy of the email but I like to give them the benefit of the doubt that the got the address legitimately before I report them. I only truly get annoyed if they ignore my request to stop which no legitimate small business person would. Eric Graeb AS/400 Administrator King Optical Group Inc. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vernon Hamberg" <vhamberg@attbi.com> To: <midrange-l@midrange.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 2:22 PM Subject: Re: *** ADMIN: Spam > As an employee of a small software development company, I find that > reporting "spam" merchants to be a scary proposal, an extreme > over-reaction. I, for one, being a member of this list, have made it _very_ > clear to our sales folk, that harvesting this list is frowned on and would > result in bad will. AFAIK, no one here has done this. But other companies > have. We are, many of us, limited in resources. Do you _really_ want to > _punish_ this practice, committed by a fairly small group, distributed to a > fairly small audience? This is _not_ coming from porn merchants, now, is it? > > Like any filtering software, anti-spam software either is going to miss a > lot, or is going to cause you to miss something you want to see. The true > control is your DEL key - set up alternate email addresses, if not too > costly. You can't keep it all away. Just like you can't completely > eliminate junk mail in your mailbox, so toss it in the trash. > > Regards > > Vern > > At 09:00 AM 8/20/02 -0400, you wrote: > > >"I also recommend forwarding _ALL_ spam immediately to utc@ftc.gov just to > >make sure that the federal spam database gets updated and used." > > > >I was reading at http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/online/inbox.htm that > >the email address is uce@ftc.gov instead of utc@ftc.gov. > > > >Chris Whisonant > >Comporium > >IBM Certified Specialist > >(803) 326-7270 > >mailto:chris.whisonant@comporium.com > > _______________________________________________ > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. >
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