
Asgaard wrote:
On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
There are technological fixes which I would favor over attempts to ban unwanted messages.
In the meantime, before these technological fixes are easily implemented, what is the proper way to handle unwanted commercial mail?
1) delete immediately
2) reply with 'Fuck off, morons!'
3) as in 2) plus an attachment of some 1Mb file
4) as in 3) plus a CC to the postmaster of the sending site
What if the spam says: 'Do only reply to this if you want further contact with us' etc?
Does anybody have good advice, including risks for retaliation from the vendors/postmasters for such 're-spam'?
I always send a quick one liner - "Please send me more information". Often I'll ask a stupid question too ("Does your software work in France?"). If more people did this, then they'd have to choose their victims a bit more carefully in the future (assuming of course they're trying to sell something). Gary -- pub 1024/C001D00D 1996/01/22 Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com> Key fingerprint = 0C FB 60 61 4D 3B 24 7D 1C 89 1D BE 1F EE 09 06 ^S ^A^Aoft FAT filesytem is extremely robust, ^Mrarely suffering from^T^T