From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 3 08:57:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA05690 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 08:57:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA05683 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 08:57:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA16713; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 08:52:58 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199706031552.IAA16713@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Stock Offering (IPO) To: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 08:52:58 -0700 (MST) Cc: davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au, terry@lambert.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199706030413.AAA06212@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> from "Joel Ray Holveck" at Jun 3, 97 00:13:34 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > But what would be an effective way to attack the spammer providers? > For the next five years, they are going to be able to find ignorant > marketroids to buy their serivces, even if the entire Internet blocks > their mail. Spamming them back is fuitile; that only gets the site > blocked, and then other (more rational) complaints don't work. Legally. Start by copyrighting your email address. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.