This was from: Tasty Bits From The Technology Front Your Host: Keith Dawson This issue: <URL:http://www.tbtf.com/archive/05-22-97.html> ..Mailing-list spammers.. Email spam is the favorite gripe of most Netizens, excepting the spammers. Congress is considering legislation [25] to limit the practice of sending unwanted commercial email in bulk. Not everyone thinks this is a good idea. See [26] for a thread from an ongoing debate on Declan McCullagh's fight-censorship mailing list. George Matyjewicz <mosaic1@ix.netcom.com> did a modest experiment on a week's worth of his email -- he is on 56 mailing lists and gets around 200 messages a day -- to gauge how widespread the problem actually is. Matyjewicz posted these results: week avg/day Total messages 1,354 193.4 Spam messages 10 1.4 < 1 % Spam complaints 189 27.0 14 % Mailing-list owners share information on the addresses from which commercial spam messages originate. Recently Alexander Verbraeck <A.Verbraeck@duticai.twi.tudelft.nl> posted a particularly compre- hensive list of purported spammers. I have taken the liberty of preserving a snapshot on the TBTF archive [27], sorted both by email address and by "virulence" -- the total number of messages sent by each spammer over a given time period to two of Verbraeck's lists. Thanks to Tom Parmenter <tompar@world.std.com> for the tip. [25] <URL:http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C10875%2C00.html> [26] <URL:http://www.tbtf.com/resource/to-ban-spam.html> [27] <URL:http://www.tbtf.com/resource/spammers.html> =-=-=-=-=-=- Ross Wright King Media: Bulk Sales of Software Media and Duplication Services http://www.slip.net/~cdr/kingmedia Voice: (408) 259-2795