RE: OFFTOPIC: Spam.

Hi Kevin,

I think we would have tolerated a post to this list pretending that he was sharing interesting information. But his email indicates that he has added us to a different (his own) mailing list without our consent, and that we need to "unsubscribe" to avoid getting more mail. That's offensive.

For various reasons, most list members don't want to be on other mailing lists. My "Ixora News" is about as interesting to this audience as such newsletters get, and yet it has less than 1000 subscribers and only about 78 of those are members of this list. If only about 5% of this list want to see my "marketing", if you can call it that, then I'm sure that even fewer want to see his. By adding us to his mailing list, he has shown disrespect for our privacy, our liberty and the law.

@   Regards,
@   Steve Adams
@   http://www.ixora.com.au/
@   http://www.christianity.net.au/

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Friday, 16 February 2001 6:17
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

No offense all, but I don't see why everyone is so upset about this email. It pertained to Oracle and we recieved it once. It's as if I recieved an interesting email and sent it to all of you, why so upset?

-----Original Message-----
Mengler
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 2:58 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

AFAIK -> The spammer's home info is

                     800 Michelle Court
                     Lanoka Harbor, NJ 08734-1828
                     609 971 7296

Below is the reponse I got from my nasty-gram to abuse_at_home.com I hope that he's learned his lesson & won't spam us again.

> Thank you for your report. While we are not allowed to give out specific
> information regarding subscriber identity, or specific action taken
> without legal process, we have identified the offending user and taken
> appropriate action against this account.
>
> For more information regarding our Acceptable Use Policy, please see the
> following URL:
>
> http://www.home.net/aup
>
> @Home Network Policy Management Team
>

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