Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:31:34 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1014402603.cd6cb2@mired.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Natural stone tables Message-ID: <02021810313400.01558@proxy.pt.com> In-Reply-To: <pb7kpbfhrn.kpb@localhost.localdomain> References: <20020217114119.HKOG24881.mailhost.det.ameritech.net@ameritech.net> <02021722243401.01477@proxy.pt.com> <pb7kpbfhrn.kpb@localhost.localdomain>
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On Monday 18 February 2002 01:03, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> writes: > > I can see that. I meant to ask earlier and got rushed, but is there > > anyone who, in an official capacity, makes complaints to ISPs, etc > > concerning this sort of thing? > > ... > > > Someone should be lobbying the government to make some laws that can be > > used against these people. I know a few states have started to do some > > things, and that's good, but there's more that needs done. > > I half-heard a TV snews report in which I recall the head of the FTC > asking people to send them messages from commercial spammers and that > they'd go after them. I'm not sure what law/rull the spammers would be > violating; I thought that's why the state laws where being made. I think > they were especially (or maybe only?) asking for SPAM of the chain > letter and pyramid scheme kind. So I'm guessing it isn't the SPAM itself > that would be the spammer's violation, but the business practices being > engaged in via the SPAM. IIRC, http://www.ftc.gov is where you look > for the place to send your SPAM. I've used to email them every single spam mail I got (uce@ftc.gov) and never got a single response back whatsoever. Obvisiouly they don't know the first thing about communication: that if you never reply, people start to wonder if there's even anyone there. But they're the government, what do you expect. > I've enjoyed my new ISP (since Sep'01). I've got my e-mail on a couple > of web sites and these archives and I get less than one SPAM per day > (other than the many from freebsd.org). I'll trade you. RoadRunner, since the whole AOL thing, has been a hotbed of spam. I'm fairly sure that they've sold off my email address to spammers, and I'm wondering what I can do about it. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology technical services http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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