dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM) writes:
In all fairness, in addition to Stanford Wallace, there are several other spammers sending out junk e-mail. If you completely eliminate Stanford and his company, you will STILL get junk e-mail.
If Mr. Spamford were terminated with extreme prejudice, my junk email would be reduced to managable levels.
Perhaps this will spark another round of a cypherpunk discussion of technical solutions to junk e-mail...
I'm tempted to go some sort of postage route myself, but I occasionally get mail from newbies who have never written me before, and who occasionally have something interesting to say.
I placed myself on a zillion "remove" lists. Now I no longer get any junk e-mail of interest (which I did on rare occasions), but still get at least once a day an MMF and/or an ad for a sex site.
I'll tell you what I did, if anyone cares to spend a little time emulating what I did.
Visit these two sites and jump through the loops:
It is not *I* who should do the hoop-jumping in order to keep my mailbox free of garbage.
Send an e-mail with a "remove" in the subject to the following collection of addresses. I keep track of when I send in a semi-automatic ";remove" request. Quite a few of them keep on sending junk e-mail despite the remove requests. Some may add you to their junk mail list when they get your remove request if you're not on it already.
Again, I will forward *ALL* my email to /dev/null before I kowtow before some humongous list of offenders. [Very Long List Snipped] Additionally, a lot of mail is of the "This is the only mailing you will receive from us" variety. Getting 50 a day of those can be royally annoying as well. I am tempted to launch a few thousand packets in the direction of any IP which sends me unwanted material trying to sell me something. If everyone did this, spamming machines would be buried in a packet snowstorm within a few minutes of starting operations. -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ enoch@zipcon.com $ via Finger $ {Free Cypherpunk Political Prisoner Jim Bell}