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  3. December 2004

Re: *** ADMIN: Spamming

Steve Richter wrote:

> why not just have the list server xxxxx out the email address of
> everyone who posts to these lists?  If someone wants to send a private
> message the list server could provide a facility for doing that.


Well, that is done in the archives.

There is not really a facility to mangle email addresses inside messages ... mainly because some people want their email addresses in the message.

> as far as spam from as400 vendors is concerned, it does not bother me.
>  It is not like they are selling viagra or something, so the number of
> unsolicited messages from as400 vendors will be rather low.


As far as I'm concerned ... UCE (UCE = Unsolicited Commercial Email = SPAM) is UCE is UCE ... The "U" is key ... Unsolicited. If I didn't ask for it, I don't want it. The onus should not be mine to tell you that I don't want it.

david

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