[NTLUG:Discuss] List $pamming

[Kendall Clark]

>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Baker <sjbaker1 at airmail.net> writes:

    Steve> al_h at technologist.com wrote:
    >>  I remember a news story years back about this man who
    >> successfully billed all of the telemarketing companies that
    >> used his phone line for advertising. Perhaps we have an person
    >> who knows the method we could use to start sending bills to
    >> these people. It would be a great boon to our treasury ;-)

    Steve> These toner people are particularly noxious. They say in
    Steve> some of their mails (I didn't read the offending one) that
    Steve> they'll be happy to remove you from their mailing list -
    Steve> but not if you reply via email (you have to phone them) -
    Steve> and not if you are abusive(!).  You can just bet how well
    Steve> manned that phone line is!

Yes, this toner company is near the head of the long list of spamming
assholes. They are some persistent fsckers.

    Steve> For the lists that *I* maintain, I set them up to disallow
    Steve> postings from people who are not subscribed to the
    Steve> list.

At the cost of making the list somewhat less useful for people with
multiple addresses, so TANSTAAFL.

Kendall
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