complaint address (Re: Get your ## F R E E ## email)

Kathleen Moon kmoon at ucla.edu
Wed Apr 21 03:01:08 EDT 1999


Doug Yanega wrote:
> 
> Another one...
> 
> >Get your own free lifetime email @ HOTMAILBOX.COM
> >
> >http://www.hotmailbox.com
> 
> Well, these folks won't be giving ANYONE lifetime accounts if we send in
> enough complaints to their upstream providers about their unethical
> advertising, and get them disconnected quickly. Should be easy, if the
> providers are legitimate. The following info is pertinent:

[....]

> Rest assured that Mr. Castellano will ignore complaints sent to him (only
> natural, since he evidently runs the business, and Singapore and Hong Kong
> are THE places for people who want to run e-mail scams - I don't think I've
> seen a single honest business with a domain there in my 10+ years on the
> Net), but if you complain politely to postmaster at resolver.net, that should
> get someone's SERIOUS attention.

True.  There is something even more effective: tell you Internet Service
Provider (ISP).  That should get some good service as well: an ISP can
block email coming in that originates from an offending site,  Although
this situation, it coming from overseas makes it a little harder, but
not much.  It works very well for spam email.


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