Shriramana, On Saturday 03 September 2005 20:06, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
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I request the authorities to take any steps possible regarding this.
Such as? For all we know, you're collecting addresses and doing unspeakable things with them, too. Email is email. You post on a publically accessible list and you lose control of the address you use to post. Even if the archives have the email address expunged or altered, someone looking to collect addresses need only subscribe and start collecting. The only thing to do about spam is dispense with it promptly and with a minimum of effort. My ISP does an excellent job of labelling it via SpamAssassin. That, and treat it like all advertising: Don't patronize people or businesses whose business practices offend your principles or sensibilities. Spam only survives because people respond to it. True, it takes only a tiny response rate (by comparison to other media) to make email advertising worthwhile, but if everyone (and I do mean everyone) had the good sense to make it a point to punish rather than reward senders of UCE, it would eventually cease.
Thanks for a great service!
Oh, we aim to please...
Shriramana Sharma.
Randall Schulz -- "Hell is other people." -- Jean-Paul Sartre