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Re: Someone's at it again with SPAM
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Date: 
Fri, 26 May 2000 13:15:04 GMT
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Frank Filz wrote:

Someone's at it again with SPAM. This time it was definitely culled from
Lugnet, I got two messages with subject lines Re:xxxx which are both
threads I have posted in. I will be happy to e-mail Todd the full
messages if he wants to pursue this.

I hate to use a SPAM blocker on my posts, but I may have to start doing
so.

Oops, didn't pay enough attention, Scott and others have already
highlighted this. The two messages I received "replies" to were to
non-shopping newsgroups.

It sounds like it might be worthwhile Todd checking out if the from
headers are forged, and if not, getting this guy's account pulled if
possible.

--
Frank Filz

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Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com



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(...) Agreed. Unfortunately, it looks to be from someone with a free ISP account in the UK. Freeserve doesn't explicity outlaw spam but they do say "In particular, you will not use Freeserve to transmit or post anymaterial which is defamatory, (...) (25 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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Someone's at it again with SPAM. This time it was definitely culled from Lugnet, I got two messages with subject lines Re:xxxx which are both threads I have posted in. I will be happy to e-mail Todd the full messages if he wants to pursue this. I (...) (25 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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