Re: [OT] spam advice

2002-12-10 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 07:29, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 12:27:08PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > so i'll sue the next spammer sending from the US... except it won't > > work, right, because the US legal system is more of a joke than what > > it pretends to be... > > Between

Re: [OT] spam advice

2002-12-07 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 12:27:08PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > so i'll sue the next spammer sending from the US... except it won't > work, right, because the US legal system is more of a joke than what > it pretends to be... Between that, our screwy politics, and the fact it turns out that Ore

Re: [OT] spam advice

2002-12-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.07.0816 +0100]: > The Telecommunications Act of 1988 prohibits it in the United States, > as computers are capable of transcribing to paper. so i'll sue the next spammer sending from the US... except it won't work, right, because the US legal s

Re: [OT] spam advice

2002-12-07 Thread David Mccowan
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 23:02:53 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hugh Saunders) wrote: I tried this with one of my old email accounts for about a month. Around one forth of the links did not work, of the ones that did the mail kept comming. In addition I got new mail from the companies, so I had to get a n

Re: [OT] spam advice

2002-12-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:16:26PM -0600, Nicolaus Kedegren wrote: > If I am not mistaken, Sweden has a law that prohibits "unsolicited > commercial email" a.k.a. spam. I am not fully aware of how the law is > written, but if any swedes out there can give some more inf, I am sure > it would be appr

Re: [OT] spam advice

2002-12-06 Thread nate
Nicolaus Kedegren said: > If I am not mistaken, Sweden has a law that prohibits "unsolicited > commercial email" a.k.a. spam. I am not fully aware of how the law is > written, but if any swedes out there can give some more inf, I am sure it > would be appreciated by all of us. washington does to

Re: [OT] spam advice

2002-12-06 Thread Nicolaus Kedegren
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 10:55:50PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.06.0002 +0100]: > > Is it adviseable to attempt to use these measures to be removed from > > lists? or just keep on writing filitering rules? > > no. yes. in that order. > > w

Re: [OT] spam advice

2002-12-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.06.0002 +0100]: > Is it adviseable to attempt to use these measures to be removed from > lists? or just keep on writing filitering rules? no. yes. in that order. we should start filing suits against spammers. anyone know which countries in th

Re: [OT] spam advice

2002-12-05 Thread Gary Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > at the bottom of many spam-type emails there is a get out clause or > something to remove my name from the database. Surely clicking on this > link/sending an email to the adress specified simply verifies that your > address is valid? > > Is it adviseable to attempt to

Re: [OT] spam advice

2002-12-05 Thread nate
Hugh Saunders said: > hello, > > at the bottom of many spam-type emails there is a get out clause or > something to remove my name from the database. Surely clicking on this > link/sending an email to the adress specified simply verifies that your > address is valid? > > Is it adviseable to attempt

[OT] spam advice

2002-12-05 Thread Hugh Saunders
hello, at the bottom of many spam-type emails there is a get out clause or something to remove my name from the database. Surely clicking on this link/sending an email to the adress specified simply verifies that your address is valid? Is it adviseable to attempt to use these measures to be remov