From: Vincent Poy (vince_at_pele.WURLDLINK.NET)
Date: Wed Nov 08 2000 - 16:23:14 EST
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, STeve Andre' wrote:
Actually, it's the other way around. The small ISP's would be
more concerned. It's the Big ISP's that are the source of the problem
since half the spam originates from MCI WorldCom's UUNet dialups.
Cheers,
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> Yes, I certainly am, and have adopted a zero-tolerance attitude towards
> it now.
>
> The instant I see that spam has landed in my inbox, I stop whatever I'm
> doing and look at the headers to figure out where the blasted stuff is
> coming from, and send mail to root@, abuse@ and postmaster@ of the
> originating domain.
>
> Once now, the people who were being used actually managed to catch
> the spammer in the act! That was a good feeling.
>
> I encourage everyone to do this, to get all ISP's to take this problem
> more seriously. The really big ISP's seem to, but a lot of others don't.
>
> --STeve Andre'
>
> At 01:29 AM 11/6/00 -0500, Bill Morrow wrote:
> >Is everyone getting more spam now..??
> >
> >--
> >---
> >
> >Happy trails...
> >
> >** Bill Morrow ** :-)
> >WEB page http://thinkpads.com
> >e-mail: bill_at_thinkpads.com, penzance_at_gate.net
> >open forum: http://www.afaonline.com:8080/webboard/$webb.exe/~2/login?
> >sic transit gloria
>
>
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