where to complain about spam: 300 world first products..

[Rebecca Jolly]

     I read the spam again (I don't normally bother, just delete them 
     straight away) and found this at the bottom:
     
     
     //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
     ///////// This Message was Composed using Extractor Pro Bulk E- Mail 
     Software. If 
     you wish to be removed from this advertiser's future mailings, please 
     reply with the subject "Remove" and this software will automatically 
     block you from their future mailings.
     //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
     //////////
     
     
     I shall give it a go.  Not sure whether it will actually work as it 
     only states 'this advertiser's'.  It is a bit irritating to have to 
     respond in this way to stop future mailings.  Better if they didn't 
     send them in the first place!  
     Grrrrrr.
     Regards Rebecca Jolly


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Subject: where to complain about spam: 300 world first products...
Author:  dyanega at mono.icb.ufmg.br at INTERNET-MAIL
Date:    08/10/97 00:24


For other annoyed recipients of the latest spam, here's who apparently 
gives them their e-mail access - Peter.Wilmot at GLOBALONE.NET, the 
administrator of gip.net (my example follows):
     
>Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 20:59:37 -0300 
>To:Peter.Wilmot at GLOBALONE.NET
>From:dyanega at mono.icb.ufmg.br (Doug Yanega) 
>Subject:spam: 300 world first products...
>
>These folks, apparently clients of gip.net (based on traceroute, which 
>shows them going thru magnadata.gip.net) have evidently purchased a list 
>of "spammable" addresses, including a mailing list that I am on, in 
>addition to (no doubt) a few thousand other unwilling recipients. Is this 
>sort of massive e-mail abuse against your user policies?
>
>>Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 01:48:44 GMT 
>>Reply-To: apcbooks at magna.com.au
>>Sender: owner-leps-l at lists.yale.edu 
>>Precedence: bulk
>>From: apcbooks at magna.com.au
>>To: LEPS-L at lists.yale.edu,
>>
>>newsfeed.internetmci.com!139.130.235.93!news.telstra.net!lo at news.bbnplanet 
>>.com,
>>        brian.telstra.net!news.magna.com.au!not-for-mail at omi.telstra.net 
>>Subject: 300 world first products and technologies published online 
>>X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/16.230
>>X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.0 -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN 
>>
>>Tomorrows World, The Australian Initiative, is now online at: 
>>
>>http://apc-online.com/twa/
>>
>[snip]
>>
>>Michael Soker
>>Associated Publishing Corporation
>>http://apc-online.com
>>apc-books at magna.com.au
     
I might add it would be nice to know WHO is selling the "spammable" list 
that includes leps-l. Argh.
Peace,
     
Doug Yanega    Depto. de Biologia Geral, Instituto de Ciencias Biologicas, 
Univ. Fed. de Minas Gerais, Cx.P. 486, 30.161-970 Belo Horizonte, MG   BRAZIL 
phone: 031-448-1223, fax: 031-441-5481  (from U.S., prefix 011-55)
                  http://www.icb.ufmg.br/~dyanega/
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