On Tue 15-Jul-1997  1:32p, Carl Owens wrote:
CO> yes, it is quite sad. The days when one could read with peace and quiet
CO> on the internet are disappearing to the noise of SPAM. In amateur SPAM
CO> is a group of radio operators one can respect. SPAM stands for The
CO> Society for the Preservation of Amplitude Modulation. As such it is an
CO> interesting group to hear from and about.
Now THAT kind of SPAM I can deal with! hehehee  
CO> However, SPAM on the internet
CO> is at best disgusting. My provider fines SPAMers $200 per message which
CO> the user flags to the abuse department. It is a practice I applaud. It
CO> is good to see someone doing something about the noise on the net. I
CO> hope you have much continued success with those filters. It is tough
CO> that you will miss some of the messages you might have wished to
CO> receive. Let me know how the filtering works out.
You must pass my sincere thanks on to your ISP!  If only another 200,000 of 
them would do the same thing!
Update on filters: It is a losing battle!  I have tried everything short of:
*.*.*.* hehehe
What throws filters for a loop is the fact that messages that are sent from 
MULTI-MAIL or MASS-MAIL programs, are self-mutating.  I am finding odd 
characters out side of the STANDARD low ascii.  I thought that mail servers 
sould just spit those out, but they don't...   On particularly annoying 
spamer is using some mass-mailer that throws in enough crap into the headers 
to choke a mule...  pages and pages of things.  alot of Cc's (of course) in 
mail messages they send to.
Anyway, don't want to talk about it here, there is enough talk about it (when 
they read the messages through the spam) over in the newsgroups!  We are 
still blessed with semi-noisefree messaging in the outernets! hehehe
In my opinion, everyone who gets mailed SPAM by a business should see if that 
business has an 800 number.  Call that 800 number and waste as much time as 
possible....   Cost them some money.   Ask them if they can send more 
literature since postage costs money.  Also if you find anything of their's 
like a prepaid inquiry form... hehhee   It sayes that the addressee will pay 
all postage on it? hmmmm   Tape it to a brick and drop in the mail.
At one time, a group of people I knew were upset with a particular Fortune 
500 company, and that company probably added the {group of people's name 
here} Wing onto their building with those bricks. hehe
I will *NEVER* do business with a company that SPAMs news or mail.
Have a great weekend (I know, I'm just getting a head start on it!)...
W5UGD
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