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Re: [faq-maintainers] FAQ-based spam...

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From: SiKing (siking@myrealbox.com)
Date: Sun Nov 25 2001 - 09:12:47 CST


Mike Holloway wrote:
> That's just a lazy sys admin covering his butt. Complaints to the
> administrators of the spammer's system, or the upstream connection, not to
> the spammer's themselves, do make a difference, even if the admins are in
> the business of harboring spammers. Hopefully there're in business for the
> long haul, recognize that spamming is harmful to their business, and
> terminate the spammer quickly. Spamcop is an excellent way of doing that
> anonymously. I firmly believe that if everyone woke up tommorrow, said
> "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it any more!", and complained,
> there'd be alot less spam.

I completely agree with you. But until that wonderful day, I set up one
of these <http://www.semicybernetic.f2s.com/spamthis.shtml> and include
the URL in all my posting to Usenet. ;)

-- 
rmrl FAQ:
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/models/rc-cars/newbie-guide
Candy for spammers:
http://www.semicybernetic.f2s.com/spamthis.shtml

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