[X Newbies] SPAM [was Returned Mail: Confirmation Required - #SSID#: 6J8UFK6V9IUNZW2M]

[blu]

Your points are well taken.
I do not know anything about ilesa.com or the 'SpamSlam' program, 
other than that an announcement of the new version [not an ad] 
appears in Macworld, so the must be semi-legitimate.  Could not find 
a review that even mentions their selling of email addresses.

I was only pointing out that it was not a malicious attempt by the 
list member, only that they did not have the program configured 
properly to deal with any mailing lists they might be on.

I agree that it is the responsibility of a list member to make sure 
that auto-responders are turned off and filters such as this one are 
set to accept mail from any lists.  It is inexcusable for messages 
such as this to go to mailing lists that may include several hundred 
members.

Has anyone tried to contact <fmindlin at santacruz.k12.ca.us> directly 
about this, or the X Newbies list owner???

And, I repeat, do NOT reply to the message.

blu

At 10:46 AM -0500 1/2/04, Bruce Klutchko wrote:
>On 1/2/04 10:04 AM, "blu" <blu at bludragon.net> wrote:
>
>>  It might not be spam: 'SpamSlam' is a legitimate spam filter for
>>  windows and Mac OSX. http://www.ilesa.com/
>
>It is SPAM to me. I keep getting numerous unsolicited messages from a sender
>I did not wish to send me messages that I have to manually delete. It is an
>affront to the list; the listmom should delete this user from the mailing
>list. I have also heard that this service sells the email addresses of
>anyone who replies to their requests to other spammers; their intent is that
>pretty soon everybody has to use their service or be spammed.
>
>>  The owner of the email address <fmindlin at santacruz.k12.ca.us> should
>>  configure the program so it will accept mail from any mailing list
>>  they are on.  This will avoid auto-generated validation emails to all
>>  members of lists.
>
>The list should not allow members who use this absurd "service" - and we
>should all see if the service isn't violating the anti-spam laws. They must
>be stopped from doing this.
>
>Meanwhile, each of us should create a new filter or rule to remove all mail
>that has any mention of the list member who is doing this to us. Then we
>won't have to see this garbage.


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