On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 at 22:23:04, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>Use the [EMAIL PROTECTED] or some other address. Every single time you
>reply to this list, every mailing list admin in the universe has to deal
>with the bounces. It's killing me, and I'm sure everyone else. I'm up to
>1 or 2 PER MINUTE.
>
>PLEASE THINK BEFORE YOU REPLY!
.... and every ruddy subscriber.
It is not the lists fault.
What clever bastards - they get _automatic_ duplication of all their
spam to all mailing list subscribers and even more replies.
I got maybe 80 this morning.
.... but of course I am contributing (8-(#
This spam is seriously affecting ISPs.
Demon for instance have not been able to cope with the volume of mail in
the last month via their POP3 service. POP3 has been down more than
not, and they are in the middle of a two month exercise to increase
capacity.
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