Attention Webmaster at interbusiness.it: One of your customers <http://www.netfraternity.net/> is sending an automatic confirmation for receipt of each email they send out. Many of us have requested they stop this procedure (see below for their support staff response to may request to stop this nuisance email - also see the email from an European member of a mailing slit who is also receiving their junk email). I find this practice an abuse of bandwidth and nothing more than another form of SPAM. There is no reason to receive a confirmation auto-responder email when posting to a mailing list like Net-tamer Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and SurvPC Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Please ask your customer to reconfigure their web page so their option of auto-responder for sent email is not the default. This should be a simple change of a flag in the email software they are using. Thank you for handling this annoying auto-responder bandwidth wasting approach. John Oram ========================== Subject: Re: [Fwd: Mail confirmation] - SPAM FROM YOUR GROUP AGAIN Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 12:27:49 +0200 From: "Nf Staff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: 1 WE HAVE ALREADY ANSWER....We can not do anything! ----- Original Message ----- From: John Oram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 16, 1999 5:58 PM Subject: [Fwd: Mail confirmation] - SPAM FROM YOUR GROUP AGAIN > President dott. Alberto Vazzoler: > > I am not interested in your organization nor your auto-responder SPAM. > > > Again I am requesting you stop sending me email from your auto-responder > list. > > > You do not have my permission to put me on your auto-responder mailing > list. > > This is a very discourteous use of email. This is a waste of bandwidth > between your ISP and many routers along the way. Auto-reponders are not > something to use unless you have the specific authorization of the > receiving party. > > Why are you wasting bandwidth making people angry at your organization? > > I will now NEVER recommend anyone use your so-called service. I think it > is a scam, SPAM, and your ISP should remove your privelages for waisting > bandwidth. > > Please stop now!! > > John Oram ------------- -------------------- 3 -------------------- Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 16:25:21 -0300 From: hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: netfraternity nuisance of mail "confirming" Look at the subscription form for the "free" email hosting by <http://www.netfraternity.net> - there you find the source of the intolerable nuisance which every user of their service creates: --------------------quote:-------------- 8) PUBLICITY MESSAGES With my Application, I confirm that I will accept the display on my computer of: * Publicity messages (Netspots�) * Additional publicity (Mailspots�) with messages advising the arrival of e-mail (see MRC� Mailspot� Receipt Confirmation), which confirms receipt of e-mail and records the date and time of reading. In no case will publicity messages appear within e-mail messages (to respect to the full the privacy of the User) -------------------unquote.------------- And at another place in their publicity at the site you find: --------------------quote:-------------- MRC� is a Netfraternity� initiative which tries to remedy principally the problem, frequent to who already knows Internet, of being certain that your mail has arrived at it's destination. Infact the sender will receive an e-mail confirming the hour and data regarding the reception of the aforementioned mail. FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF YOUR MAIL YOU CAN USE ANY MAILING SOFTWARE YOU WISH. -------------------unquote.------------- This is intolerable. It means that a user cannot inhibit these "confirmations" to each an any items of a mailing list he is subscribed to. Modest advertising or sponsoring banners are acceptable, but not this imposture. I plead for a common appeal to the Listmaster to ban "netfraternity" users from the list. These "netfraternity" users can be made attent to what they themselves have accepted and subscribed (and supposedly read), and advised to search for another (free) service which does not cause this "mail confirmation" nuisance. Heimo Claasen Brussels 1999-05-16 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.inti.be/hammer 35 Rue du Marteau B-1000 BRUXELLES t. (+32.2) 217 86 07 WDR(radio) - epd-ENTWICKLUNGSPOLITIK - WochenZeitung - FREITAG To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies.
