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from: Leonard_Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org (Leonard Erickson)
date: 1997-02-16 00:00:00
subject: Re: Kay`s post [.ELIMINATING.] SPAM

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 el> (e.g., "Remove the SPAMBLOCKER to respond to this message.")

 el> In fact, if everyone did this (and probably used more vague
 el> descriptions of how to respond their E-mail address, while it would
 el> probably leave most users a bit more frustrated in E-mailed responses,
 el> it would virtually eliminate spam as we know it today, since the
 el> mechanism of automated address trolling programs would be unusable.

Sorry, but that's not true. I have not posted *or* mailed from a
certain address for three years. I get regular spam addressed to the
account. True, it's only a few a month, but it's still spam.

Leonard Erickson (aka Shadow)
 shadow@krypton.rain.com	<--preferred
leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com	<--last resort

... They got the library at Alexandria. They're not getting mine.

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