[79755] in Cypherpunks
Re: Spam Update/Cyber Promo attacked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Igor Chudov @ home)
Sat May 10 02:41:20 1997
To: tcmay@got.net (Tim May)
Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 23:17:44 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: sunder@brainlink.com, osborne@gateway.grumman.com, cypherpunks@algebra.com
In-Reply-To: <v03007800af99ae300ca9@[207.167.93.63]> from "Tim May" at May 9, 97 08:53:33 pm
From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Reply-To: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Tim May wrote:
> >The problem I have with them is that while they do say "Send email here
> >to never be spammed again" it doesn't work. They don't honor the
> >deletion requests. You wind up on some other dweeb's spam queue also
> >from cyberspam. :(
>
> Indeed, saying you don't "want" more advertisements is, for all practical
> purposes, saying "Send me more!!!!"
You know, maybe if the spammers were not routinely kicked 1/2 hr after
the incident, they would probably have a chance to receive and honor
the removal requests.
But then, maybe not.
- Igor.
