[10922] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
CAUCE - Anti-SPAM coalition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jose.kahan@w3.org)
Thu Jul 31 13:39:37 1997
To: www-talk@w3.org
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 19:32:12 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: sk@w3.org
From: jose.kahan@w3.org
Reply-To: jose.kahan@w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Today I found out about Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial
E-Mail (CAUCE).
Sally, is it OK to tell them of our SPAM problems? Their mail
says they could cite us. I could ask them to not do so, I think.
This is not a technical solution, but at least it shows we don't like
SPAM :)
I enclose here below the info I got by autoresponder by sending a hello
message to their site.
-Jose
Thank you for submitting your comments to the CAUCE web site. This is an
automatic response; you should be receiving a more personal response within
a day or so if appropriate.
We may be contacting you to ask your permission to make the comment public
in a future press release -- but don't worry, we WILL contact you first.
If you are responding due to forged, unsolicited e-mail which you received,
please note that CAUCE did *NOT* authorize that mailing. It is an attempt
to defame our organization and to dupe the public into thinking we would
do that which we're committed to fighting: stealing resources, flooding
networks, and wasting consumers' time.
Several of our network administrators are working to trace the origins of
the message and will be notifing appropriate authorities.
For the record, CAUCE is an ad hoc, all volunteer organization and the
CAUCE leadership consists of system administrators, internet service
providers, and consumer activists dedicated to outlawing the fraudulent
and destructive practice of Unsolicited Commercial Email.
We **do not** solicit contributions; in fact we will not even accept
contributions. Federal lobbying regulations would require extensive
administrative filings if we accepted contributions or used such funds
for our legislative efforts, therefore we are not interested in ever
accepting donations or dues.
If you wish to support out efforts, you are welcome to do so, however we
would never "spam" our message to millions -- it goes against everything
we stand for. For more information about CAUCE, please see our web site;
we are a well known and highly respected organization and the news
reports of our success on Capitol Hill reflect that.
--
Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail (CAUCE)
http://www.cauce.org/
