Richard L. England, Jr. enscribed thusly:
> Was anyone even able to send a "REMOVE" to this Email address? Mine came
> back with a "service unavailable" error.
Do not do this!
There are a bunch of spammers out there that use this technique
to troll for good addresses! They hit a mailing list with some assinine
spam with a "to Remove" message at the bottom. Until they are finally
thrown off of their accounts by their provider, they sit back and
accumulate real addresses from all the fools you respond to the
Remove instructions. In other words, by trying to get yourself removed,
you end up adding yourself to E-Mail lists you wouldn't have otherwise
been added to.
There is a counter measure that's fun though... You spam them
back with thousands of bogus "Remove" message and poison their address
lists with bad addresses... :-) If you are really nasty, you lay
out spammer bait and use that to trigger anti-spam filters any time
someone tries to send E-Mail to the baited addresses. :-)
> Rich
>
> At 10:02 AM 2/15/99 -0500, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> >This is getting tiresome. Do the list maintainers have anti-SPAM set up
> >for their sendmail? If so (and they are listening) could they start to
> >filter this?
> >
> > rgb
> >
> >On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> >> ALASKA MAGAZINE in their July 98 issue says "The best source of
> >> information on snowmachining is Alaska's Snowmachiners'
> >> Directory. Published once a year, this glossy magazine is loaded
> >> with information vital to planning a winter vacation in Alaska"
> >>
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> >> for snowmobiling in Alaska. Alaska's Snowmachiners' Directory is
> >> the most comprehensive guide ever published covering the State of
> >> Alaska, with regards to snowmobiling. It is a full color, glossy
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> >> wanting to travel or ever thought of traveling to Alaska in the
> >> winter time.
> >>
> >> Inside you will find Directories for; Lodges, Snowmobile Tour
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> >> Clubs, Trail Systems, Events unique to Alaska along with phone
> >> numbers and websites. You can order yours for only $5.95 + S/H.
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> >> http://www.mustgohere.com/aksnowmachiner
> >>
> >> <a href="http://www.mustgohere.com/aksnowmachiner">Click Here</a>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Reply with remove to be removed.
> >> MediaWeb AA,MI48103 7346698750
> >>
> >
> >Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/
> >Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305
> >Durham, N.C. 27708-0305
> >Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> >
> >
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