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Tue, 10 Oct 1995 23:35:55 EDT
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In Response to queries about what to do when some fool SPAM's the internet
with a commercial message, I am afraid that there is little we can do. The
return email address is a fake and throwing big files at it will just get
you an error message with/or without your big file in tow. I posted the few
phone numbers and the mailing address to warn people that the 1-900 numbers
were toll numbers which charge you a fee and pay a royalty to the clowns who
posted the message in the first place. It is adding insult to injury to call
them to complain and discover that you have paid them a fee for the right to
complain.
 
There was a mailing address - but mailing bricks takes time and is expensive.
There was (possibly) one live phone in the message. There is little one can
do to prevent individual abuses of a common workspace. I wish there were more
we could do about it. For now it only happens about once every 6 months.
 
Sam Lanfranco ListManager CANCHID

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