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Re: WARNING: spam from Helge Viker
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lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
Date: 
Sun, 7 May 2000 08:55:11 GMT
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> 
> Helge,
> 
> Thanks for letting us know what you are doing and that you are stoping your
> E-mails.  I would note however that probably the main reason you only got 1
> negative e-mail as feed back is probably because most Internet providers and
> E-mail services recommend very strongly not to ever respond to SPAM e-mails.
> Their main reasoning for this is because all responding to a SPAM does (even • if
> it is to remove yourself from the list) is let that SPAM know they have a real
> person behind the E-mail address.  Then more likely then not you will receive
> even more SPAM not less.

The note is taken, and I will have this in mind in the future.

> 
> Therefore it is my personal practice never to reply to SPAM and only to put
> SPAMers on my Kill list so that further E-mails get blocked.
> 
> > 
> > And I repeat my statement from my ather posting in this discussion:
> > 
> > I have NOT harvested mail addresses from Lugnet or ebay. All mail addresses
> > has come into my system through other mails.
> 
> Well I will take your word for it although I know I have never E-mailed you • and
> I don't remember any E-mails we were both on but I guess its possible.  Either
> way I know we have never conversed before.


Both Jeremy Sproat and Eric Kingsley has been send a mail with a copy of the
mail where I got their email address. I will do the same for anybody else that
are interested.

Regards,
Helge


> 
> Eric Kingsley
> 
> The New England LEGO Users Group
> http://www.nelug.org/
> 
> View My Creations at:
> http://www.nelug.org/members/kingsley/



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(...) Helge, Thanks for letting us know what you are doing and that you are stoping your E-mails. I would note however that probably the main reason you only got 1 negative e-mail as feed back is probably because most Internet providers and E-mail (...) (26 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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