[P1] anti-spam note

Larry Kollar kollar at alltel.net
Thu Jan 1 20:01:02 PST 2004


  J Patrick Draine wrote:

> Along the lines of this general subject -- in the past two days I've 
> gotten a couple of "returned mails" which were never sent by me. The 
> mail was rejected because it's spam, and someone has used one of my 
> addresses. Is there anything one can/should do, or should I just put 
> up with it? The old address is still listed in some yellow page ads 
> for my business, so I'm not quite ready to drop-it-like-hot-potato.

If things worked the way they should, and you can find the original 
spammer, you could bring it up on identity theft and theft of service 
charges. In the real world, the FBI doesn't give a flying flip unless 
you're a Fortune 200 company.

--
Larry Kollar    k  o  l  l  a  r  @  a  l  l  t  e  l  .  n  e  t
"The hardest part of all this is the part that requires thinking."
-- Paul Tyson, on xml-doc 



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